America's "Nazi Dumping" Strategy Uncovered

Still plenty in the UK unfortunately.
"Suspected Nazi war criminals were quietly paid millions by US taxpayers to leave the country without putting up a fight, an investigation has revealed.
Dozens of people, including members of Hitler's SS who guarded death camps where millions of Jews were slaughtered, were handed the CASH IN exchange for leaving the country and giving up citizenship.
A scientist who used slave labor to invent the Third Reich's V-2 missile was also caught up in the so-called 'Nazi dumping' strategy which saw at least 38 people linked to Hitler's murderous regime leave the US since 1979.
Four living people are still receiving monthly checks from the U.S. government valued at around $1,500. Over a lifetime total payments could easily have reached $375,000 per person.
The practice was uncovered by a lengthy investigation by the Associated Press, which found how successive US administrations used the promise of state cash to speed up the removal of suspected criminals.
The loophole allowed officials to avoid lengthy and expensive deportation hearings, which could drag on for as long as a decade before the suspect had to leave - and ran the risk of failing completely.
But governments, usually of European nations who were lumbered with the suspects after they renounced US citizenship, objected strenuously to the process, prompting diplomatic backlashes.
The payments, underwritten by American taxpayers, flowed through a legal loophole that gave the US Justice Department LEVERAGE to persuade Nazi suspects to leave the US."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2799711/nazi-war-crime-suspects-paid-millions-social-security-benefits-deal-leave-u-s-quietly-four-living-taxpayer-funded-lives-decades-long-nazi-dumping-strategy.html#ixzz3Gh7NbVHI

 

Wouldn't the immigration minister have the power to veto visas/green cards? Should have if not...with the 'foreign fighters' problem they probably do now...

 

Why am I not surprised that my country would do this?

 

Distasteful for sure, but there does seem to be some utility about it. These were people holding US citizenship, who could have fought lengthy and costly legal battles against any accusations. Given the difficulty of proving ages old war crimes, is it any wonder they paid a lower fee to have these problem citizens be removed? We might also consider that several known war criminals with useful technical expertise (such as Wernher von Braun) were given citizenship, pay, and military rank within the US Military. This almost seems like harsh treatment by comparison.

 

Yep, weirdly rationalized by our DOJ, you know. I think something that should have, must be discussed in public forum. Another reason that slams the current Administration for not being transparent. No excuse really. Operation PAPERCLIP, undoubtedly emplaced many of these folks where were of dubious backgrounds. The Cold War hid them from prosecution. Where von Brahn benefited from this operation as most of the Peenemunde crowd. Several ratlines existed, including several sponsored by the Vatican, the US, and ODESSA. The US CIC captured Klaus Barbie, both the US and British governments employed him as well. Who knows how many thousands of those people were evacuated/liberated from harm and prosecution.
In 1983 a US DOJ report specifically on Klaus Barbie highlited the impressment of such characters. It described how US Army Counter-Intelligence Corps agents employed Babie, protected him from extradition to France where he was wanted for war crimes, and organized his escape to South America. The report commented that there wasa need for information that necessitated dealing with criminals, former enemies, and other undesirables. Lacking an intelligence network, the dissolution of the OSS, the CIC targeted against Germans/Austrians/Czechs against the Soviet Union, US intelligence recruited, financed, and developed European anti-Communist resources to fill information gaps. These resources included former German and East European intelligence operatives and East European emigre political groups. (Odessa, but read the story of Gehlan) Among them were Nazis (including Gestapo and SS members) and members of East European Fascist organizations. Not necessarily justifying the practice, or excusing the DOJ, but demonstrates the rationale back then somewhat.