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UNENDING LIES AND HATE
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witch-hunt victims
It's not your usual trial. The accused are presumed to be guilty. Their accusers are invariably Jewish perjurers spinning out a carefully rehearsed horror story concocted in their superheated imaginations and suited to their purpose. Their prosecutors are also invariably Jewish. Standard rules of evidence do not apply. They are not allowed to present their case before a jury of their peers. In other words, it is simply trial by Jewry.
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Nazi-hunting unit chases By MARYCLAIRE DALE PHILADELPHIA—Johann Breyer, 77, landed work the day after arriving in America in 1952 and quietly supported his family for the next 40 years as a tool-and-die maker. Andrew Kuras, 80, grew blueberries and raised his sons in New Jersey. Ildefonsas Bucmys, 81, worked in an Ohio foundry for 27 years before retiring in 1985 to enjoy bingo, church and Lithuanian social gatherings. These three men, say federal prosecutors, are former guards at Nazi concentration camps who helped Hitler's Third Reich kill 6 million Jews. Despite their advanced age, prosecutors say they should not be allowed to live—or die—in the United States. "We race the clock against the Grim Reaper. Sometimes the Grim Reaper wins," said Eli Rosenbaum, who directs the U.S. Justice Department's Nazi-hunting unit, the Office of Special Investigations. Congress established the office in 1979 to root out and deport war criminals from World War II who made it into the country. But with its targets reaching their 80s and 90s, some question its mission. "To continue the prosecution of octogenarians—and soon nonagenarians—is, to be sure, a political decision," Senior Judge Ruggero J. Aldisert of the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote in a 1996 dissent in a Nazi deportation case. Others complain that the office—having flushed out the more egregious cases—is now chasing men who were mere pawns in the battle over Europe and have been productive, law-abiding members of American society for decades. "Time after time you find these people have led exemplary lives as citizens," said Martin Lentz, a Philadelphia lawyer who represents Breyer. But Rosenbaum said these immigrants never should have been allowed to enjoy the benefits of U.S. residency and citizenship. "The bottom line is they simply shouldn't be here," he said, "and it is especially cruel to require survivors of the Holocaust and other Nazi crimes who have made new homes here to require them to share their adopted homeland with their former tormentors." The Justice Department builds deportation cases against these men by showing they lied about their wartime activities when they entered the United States. "They told their whole story, but left out one detail: that along the way they murdered their neighbors," said Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, which tracks Nazi war criminals and documents the Holocaust. The OSI's work has led judges to strip 71 people of their citizenship and deport 51. Many of those deported could face criminal charges in Europe, but few have ever been prosecuted. The OSI staff has 24 lawyers, historians and investigators and a $5 million annual budget. There are about 150 people now under investigation and 19 cases pending in court. "We're nowhere near the last Nazi trial," Rosenbaum said. In Bucmys' case, the Dayton, Ohio, resident could lose his status as a naturalized citizen and be deported if a federal judge determines that Bucmys lied about Nazi ties when he came to the United States in 1958. Prosecutors say Bucmys was part of an auxiliary police battalion formed by the Nazis after they invaded Lithuania during World War II. According to the Justice Department, Bucmys was an armed guard at the Majdanek death camp in Poland and was there on Nov. 3, 1943, when about 18,000 Jews were shot to death. Bucmys maintains that he joined the Lithuanian National Guard, only to see the group taken over by the occupying Nazis. He says that he never worked at the camp. Kuras, who lives in Mays Landing, N.J., served as a guard at three camps in German-occupied Poland, according to the Justice Department. In a rare setback for the government this month, Breyer, who lives in Philadelphia, won a reprieve from a federal judge who said Breyer could not legally have given consent at 17 when he joined the Waffen SS. His case also differed from most others because his mother had been born in Philadelphia, and he was deemed a U.S. citizen by birthright. "After 52 consecutive victories in federal court, we lost one. That happens," Rosenbaum said.
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