Shocking: US Government's Nazi Dumping Policy Lead To Dozens Of Alleged Nazi War Criminals, Including Death Camp Guards, Getting US Social Security Benefits

Dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars in U.S. Social Security benefits after being forced out of the United States and lived comfortably in Europe.

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Shocking: US Government's Nazi Dumping Policy Lead To Dozens Of Alleged Nazi War Criminals, Including Death Camp Guards, Getting US Social Security Benefits
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com

Dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS guards collected millions of dollars in U.S. Social Security benefits after being forced out of the United States and lived comfortably in Europe.

An investigation by the Associated Press has found that dozens of suspected Nazi war criminals and SS death camp guards collected millions of dollars in US Social Security benefits – after they were forced out of the US by the government.

Social Security benefits were used as leverage by the US Justice Department to convince alleged Nazi war criminals to leave the US. Those who agreed to leave voluntarily or fled before being deported were allowed to keep their Social Security benefits.

Among those alleged Nazi war criminals who left the US and continued receiving Social Security benefits were death camp guards, a rocket scientist who used slave laborers, and a Nazi collaborator who orchestrated the arrest and murder of thousands of Polish Jews.

At least four of these Nazis are still living, including Martin Hartmann, a former SS guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp in Germany, and Auschwitz death camp guard Jakob Denzinger.

At least 38 of the 66 alleged war criminals forced out of the US kept their Social Security benefits, the AP found.

The deals with the alleged war criminals were made to allow the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, which hunted Nazi war criminals, to avoid long involved deportation hearings while increasing the number of Nazis expelled from the US.

The State Department objected to the OSI's policy of  – but largely because it essentially dumped Nazis into friendly European countries without notice to or agreement from those US allies.

In 1997, the Social Security Administration lashed out at OSI over its misuse of Social Security benefits and European allies who had Nazis dumped on their soil by OSI were outrgaed.

“It was not upfront, it was not transparent, it was not a legitimate process. This was not the way America should behave. We should not be dumping our refuse, for lack of a better word, on friendly states,” James Hergen, who was an assistant legal adviser at the US State Department from 1982 until 2007, told the AP.

Neal Sher, the former director of OSI, insisted the US State Department cared more about diplomatic relationships with European allies than holding Nazi war criminals accountable.

As objections from the State Department, the Social Security Administration and European governments mounted, the OSI aborted the benefits for self-deportation policy. However, the Nazis who fled the US under that policy continued to receive Social Security benefits, and those who are still living still receive them every month.

US Representative Carolyn Maloney, a Democrat from New York State who is a senior member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told the AP she would sponsor legislation to end the benefits.

Comments

[Rocky]

Don't be so shocked, Shmarya. The Internet has made it possible for a lot more of the government's dirty laundry to made public in recent years. In the old days, it would probably have been swept under the rug.

Did the Justice Department actually break any laws in authorizing these Social Security benefits? Was Mr. Hergen upset because the Social Security payments were made to these ex-Nazis or because they were dumped on Germany and possibly other European countries? Your comments suggest the latter.

I think most of us know that government regulators are underfunded, that many of its senior employees are undercompensated vs the private sector and that regulators can only afford to take on a few tough cases a year. Note the terrible job the SEC did in the Madoff Ponzi scheme, even with good leads from a whistle blower.

As for the State Department, I think many of us know that it does not have a history of being pro-Jewish. During the Third Reich, it dragged its feet on processing immigration requests from desperate Jews in Germany and elsewhere.

If you thinking paying Social Security benefits to ex-Nazis is scandalous, you should be aware that bewteen 1945 and early 1948, it was easier for ex-Nazis to immigrate to Canada than for Jewish Holocuast survivors to do so. Canada eased up on it rules starting only in 1948, and initially only for tailors.

[Rocky]

My last paragraph: "thinking" should be think,
"bewteen" should be between.

[Shalom Israel]

Oh No!, I heard there was a Haredi Rabbi that made a fart,,

[nachos]

Did the haredi rabbi's followers stick their heads up his ass so they could get a blessing by inhaling the smell?

[JACK]

Oh No!, I heard there was a Haredi Rabbi that made a fart,,

Posted by: Shalom Israel
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Did the haredi rabbi's followers stick their heads up his ass so they could get a blessing by inhaling the smell?

Posted by: nachos
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would not be surprised if some of these Nazi swines are lurking in this sewer called FM,
and posting vile antisemitic remarks like the two above by "nachos,shalom israel

[nachos]

Jack
Are you in your pajamas again posting from your mom's basement?

Why are you here at 6:30 am?

[Alter Kocker]

No the comment about a rabbis fart gave Jack his morning wood.

[first cousin of yaacov the camel driver from the levant]

why does mossad adt as it did in the past, before the world went NUTS.

[seth]

Social Security benefits are earned without regard to the past or future morality of the person so taxed. The program was not intended as an instrument of the criminal law. Nor should it be. Bernie Madoff is entitled to his benefit as is any criminal in prison. Once the benefit is judgmental no one's benefit is safe. The system cannot work that way. Participation is universal and so the payouts should be too. Exactly what legal theory would allow the taking of monies without color of law escapes me. None of these people have been convicted of anything. And if they were it still would not be justified. Vindictiveness is a poor excuse for government policy. And the resulting payback is often unpleasant. Making the operation of the Social Security Administration subject to the whims of the Justice Department is very bad idea.