U.S. Supreme Court turns down case of former Nazi slave camp guard
The Justice Department succeeded in revoking the U.S. citizenship of 86-year-old Iwan Mandycz.
By The Assocaited PressThe U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday turned down the case of a former guard at a Nazi slave camp suffering from Alzheimer's disease.
The Justice Department succeeded in revoking the U.S. citizenship of 86-year-old Iwan Mandycz, paving the way for his deportation.
Mandycz's lawyers say the right that prevents the U.S. government from prosecuting a mentally incompetent person also should apply to citizenship cases, which are civil proceedings. The accused should be able to assist in the preparation of his defense and consult with his attorneys before he may be punished by the government Mandycz's lawyers said in a filing that had asked the Supreme Court to take the case.
The Justice Department, which wants to remove him from the United States, initiated denaturalization proceedings, saying Mandycz had concealed that he worked for the Nazis.
Officials said that Mandycz was a guard in 1943 at the Trawniki and Poniatowa labor camps in Poland, where prisoners were starved, beaten and executed en masse.
Mandycz has denied working at the camps and has said he spent World War working at his parents' farm in Poland and, later, as a forced laborer at a farm in Austria.
The 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati had ruled there was considerable evidence that Mandycz was Guard 3308 and an absence of competing evidence supporting the contrary.
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For shame! An 86 year old man with Alzheimers. By all means, get him out of the country! He tarnishes our image. LOL. Did this "slave camp" guard commit any attrocities against inmates? Should all former concentration camp guards living in the U.S. be deported? And what about the Jewish inmates in these camps who went along with the program? What about the infamous "Judenrats" who cooperated with the nazis? I think we should comb America for surviving Judenrats and deport them as well.
In memory of my uncle & two aunts, and millions who perished, in the name of all the people who were crammed into cattle cars and taken to death camps, and for the starvation and sufferings for those who survived, ANYONE WHO WAS PART OF THE MACHINERY OF DEATH SHOULD BE MADE TO SUFFER THE GREATEST PAIN AND HUMILIATION that is humanly possible for their inhumanity. Amen Sela.
Unless it is Bormann or someone like Mengele, I think we Jews need to let it go! Because we need the testimony of both the victims and the killers to combat the Hollingsworthlesses of the world! And anyway, at a certain point it's cruel and inhumane to beat the living crap out of an 86 year old whether Nazi or whatever. Well, actually... if we catch Bin Laden at 86, I'd even beat the living crap out of him!