Federal Court of Appeal and Letter States

Oberlander: Oberlander was a member of one of the most savage Nazi killing units, responsible for the murder of more than 90,000 Jewish men, women, and children during the Holocaust," the letter states. "He is here illegally, was associated with an horrific and murderous enterprise for which he has neither demonstrated nor expressed any remorse, and he ought to have his Canadian citizenship revoked immediately." Oberlander recently won yet another reprieve when the Federal Court of Appeal set aside a ruling against him, and ordered the government to take another look at the case, according to The Chronicle Herald. The ethnic German born in Ukraine has argued he had no choice when German forces conscripted him at age 17 in 1941 to serve as an interpreter in Einsatzkommando 10a, which was part of a force responsible for killing more than two million people. In a letter to Citizenship Minister John McCallum, the groups say it time to put an end to what has been a 20-year battle to deport Helmut Oberlander. "Mr. Most were civilians, and most were Jewish. He became a citizen in 1960 and ran a construction business in Kitchener, Ont. Oberlander immigrated to Canada in 1954 and raised two daughters. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.