5. News from the Courts:
Judge deports former Nazi guard
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports that Anton Geiser, 85, a retired steel worker, served as an armed SS Death’s Head guard at two Nazi concentration camps, and has been ordered out of the country by a federal judge.
Mr. Geiser came to the United States in 1956, and was naturalized in 1962, having lied about his military service on his paperwork. Mr. Geiser is today arguing that his participation at the concentration camps Sachsenhausen, and Arolsen, a sub-camp of Buchenwald, was not voluntary, and that he only served under threat of death.
Mr. Geiser was originally targeted for deportation in 2004, but has filed a series of appeals. His removal has been ordered by a district court, the 3rd US Circuit Court of Appeals, and now a US Immigration Court. Mr. Geiser can still appeal the decision at two additional levels, plus the Supreme Court.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10139/1059117-455.stm
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