From Yahoo:
"Former Nazi guard appeals to immigration board"
http://news.yahoo.com/former-nazi-guard-appeals-immigration-board-181245870.html
"Former Nazi guard appeals to immigration board"
A former Nazi concentration
camp guard who has lived quietly in western Pennsylvania for more than 50
years took his fight against deportation to the nation's highest immigration court Thursday, arguing
that he shouldn't be punished because he served in Hitler's army against his
will.
The Board of Immigration Appeals in Falls Church heard the appeal from
88-year-old Anton Geiser of
Sharon, Pa., who acknowledges serving in the Nazi SS as a guard in the
Sachsenhausen and Buchenwald concentration camps. A federal judge ordered him
deported in 2010. But his lawyer argued that the court should have considered that Geiser was forced to join the SS
against his will as a 17-year-old.
Government lawyers argued to uphold the deportation. They said federal law
places former Nazis in a harsher immigration category, and no exceptions should
be made because of compulsory service.
Geiser, who was recently hospitalized, did not attend Thursday's hearing. He
came to the U.S. in 1956 and was naturalized in 1962. He lived in Sharon, about
75 miles north of Pittsburgh, where he worked in a steel mill for decades and
raised five children. Justice Department lawyer Susan Siegal questioned whether Geiser's service as
a camp guard was truly involuntary. She said he could have requested a transfer
back to the Russian front, where he was initially serving, or that he could have
simply walked away from service or defied immoral orders. She said the Nuremberg
trials after World War II and military code established the precedent that
following immoral orders is not an adequate defense. Geiser says
he was forced to join the SS in 1942, and that he never killed anyone, though
tens of thousands are believed to have died at Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen.
^ Everyone has the freedom of choice no matter if they were a Nazi or not. Of course with every choice there is a consequence and that could be good or it could be bad. Geiser chose to stay a Nazi after he was "forced" to become one. Then he chose to lie on his American Visa application that he wasn't a Nazi. He then did the same on his American Citizenship application. Lying to the Federal Government should force his deportation by itself. That part doesn't depend on if he was a willing Nazi, but the fact that he had been a Nazi and had lied at least twice in writing to the US Government. I don't see why the US Government is spending any time on this case as it is clear. He was found to be a Nazi and admitted to it so he should be deported back to Europe as quickly as possible where government of whatever country takes him should put him on trial. ^
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