Nazi prison worker to stay in Canada
Jul 22, 1999
By Daniel Silva
RIGA - A Canadian-Latvian retirement home operator, accused of lying to immigration officials about his cooperation with the Nazis in Latvia during the Second World War, has won a two-year court battle for the right to remain in Canada.The Canadian Justice Department said Eduards Podins, 81, voluntarily worked as a guard at a concentration camp in Valmiera between 1941 and 1943.Canadian law denies citizenship and the right to immigrate to collaborators who worked in Nazi concentration camps. If ...
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