Helmut Oberlander may be deported back to Germany after lying to obtain his Canadian citizenship after spending World War II working as a translator for a Nazi killing squad in Russia and Ukraine.
The Supreme Court of Canada has rejected the final appeal of 95-year-old Helmut Oberlander, who may be deported to Germany even though his citizenship there was lost in 1960.10a unit in Russia and the Ukraine.Oberlander insists that he was forcibly conscripted into service to the Nazis at the age of 17 on the threat of death. After Germany surrendered, he was held in a British prisoner of war camp until 1945, after which he worked as a farm laborer and married.
A man who worked as a translator for a Nazi commando unit faces deportation from Canada for lying about his activities during the war.After a federal court ruled that Oberlander had entered Canada fraudulently in 1954 by lying about his service during the war in 2002, the Canadian government has tried to revoke Oberlander's citizenship four times over the last two decades. The orders were overturned by the Federal Court of Appeals in 2001, 2007 and 2012.
"In fact they do not have a deportation order yet and cannot get one. He is protected by Canadian domicile. In addition, he has no country of nationality. He lost his German citizenship in 1960.
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