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they were allowed to negotiate directly with foreign governments
and request the support of other U.S. agencies.”
Since its founding this agency has focused on revoking the U.S. citizenship
of immigrants of German or east European origin for alleged
“Nazi crimes,” although more often than not these crimes are freely invented
and even though these immigrants have lived in the U.S. for
decades as peaceful and law-abiding citizens. Once these people are no
longer U.S. citizens, they can be expelled at will or be extradited to
states which want to prosecute them.
It is interesting to note that the OSI seems to be solidly in Jewish
hands: ever since 1995, it has been headed by Eli Rosenbaum of Jewish
faith, his deputy is Ronnie L. Edelman, 1115 of Jewish faith as well. Rosenbaum’s
predecessor was Neal Sher, 1116 likewise a Jew, as was the
OSI chief investigator Edwards Stutman who died in 2005 and who had
managed to have Demjanjuk stripped once again of his U.S. citizenship
after the latter’s acquittal in Israel and return to the United States. 1117 In
other words: a revengeful minority within the U.S. government is allowed
to further its own political agenda at free will.
11.3. Demjanjuk’s Extradition to Israel and His Trial
First of all we shall offer the reader a few facts concerning Demjanjuk’s
biography. For the most part they have been taken from Hans Peter
Rullmann’s excellent documentation Der Fall Demjanjuk (The
Demjanjuk Case). 1118 Born Ivan Demjanjuk in Ukraine in 1920, he
joined the Soviet Red Army and was taken prisoner by the Germans in
1942. He was initially assigned to railroad repair work and was later
moved to the PoW camp at Che�m in eastern Poland. After the war he
lived in Germany for a few years, married a Ukrainian woman, and
emigrated to the U.S. in 1952, where he found employment in the automobile
industry and was naturalized in 1958.
1115 www.justice.gov/opa/pr/Pre_96/February95/81.txt html
1116 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neal_Sher
1117 Obituaries: “Edward Stutman, Prosecuted Nazis in US,” Washington Post, 30 September
2005. “His identity as an American Jew was also extremely important.”
1118 Hans Peter Rullmann, Der Fall Demjanjuk. Unschuldiger oder Massenmörder?, Verlag
für ganzheitliche Forschung und Kultur, Viöl 1987.
1118 Hans Peter Rullmann, Der Fall Demjanjuk. Unschuldiger oder Massenmörder?, Verlag
für ganzheitliche Forschung und Kultur, Viöl 1987.