TORONTO — A government decision to strip Canadian citizenship from an elderly man, who argued he was forced as a teenager to join a Nazi death squad, was reasonable, a Federal Court judge ruled on Thursday. “It is uncontested that Oberlander obtained his Canadian citizenship by false representation or by knowingly concealing material circumstances by failing to disclose involvement in the SS at the time of his immigration screening,” Phelan wrote. “No evidence was led that indicated (Oberlander) directly participated in the atrocities committed by Ek 10a,” Phelan said. Among other things, the father of two argued that Ottawa failed to consider whether he had joined Ek 10a under duress. “For survivors, this issue remains an open wound,” Sidney Zoltak, past president of the Canadian Jewish Holocaust Survivors and Descendants, said on Thursday.

Source: National Post September 27, 2018 18:49 UTC