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The Office of Special Investigations operates under the auspices of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. According to its self-description, it detects and investigates individuals who took part in Nazi-sponsored acts of persecution abroad before and during World War II, and who subsequently entered, or seek to enter, the United States illegally and/or fraudulently. It then takes appropriate legal action seeking their exclusion, denaturalization and/or deportation. The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) is a Cabinet department in the United States government designed to enforce the law and defend the interests of the United States according to the law and to ensure fair and impartial administration of justice for all Americans. ...
The term National Socialism has been used in self-description by a number of different political groups and ideologies, some of which have no connection with the Nazis; see National socialism (disambiguation). ...
Combatants Allies: • Poland, • UK & Commonwealth, • France/Free France, • Soviet Union, • USA, • China, ...and others Axis: • Germany, • Italy, • Japan, ...and others Casualties Military dead: 17 million Civilian dead: 33 million Total: 50 million Full list Military dead: 8 million Civilian dead: 4 million Total: 12 million Full list World War II...
The Office of Special Investigations began operations in 1979. As of August 2005, OSI has successfully prosecuted 100 persons involved in Nazi war crimes. These persons have had their citizenship revoked and/or been deported from the United States. Many had lived in the U.S. for decades and led unremarkable lives. For example, Adam Friedrich had lived in the U.S. since 1955 and been a citizen since 1962 before OSI found that he had been a member of the Waffen SS assigned as a prison guard at the Gross-Rosen concentration camp. He was stripped of his citizenship in 2004 after being a U.S. citizen more than forty years. Deportation is the expelling of someone from a country. ...
The current Director of OSI is Eli Rosenbaum. Mr. Rosenbaum has worked for OSI on and off since 1980. In 1995, he was appointed Director of the office after having served as its Principal Deputy Director since 1988.
Demjanjuk case
John Demjanjuk is a Ukrainian-American who was stripped of his U.S. citizenship, and deported to Israel, by the Office of Special Investigations for concealing his involvement in war crimes at the Treblinka death camp in order to immigrate to the United States. John Demjanjuk's trial began in 1978. It led him to death row in Israel. Demjanjuk's citizenship was restored in 1998 but it was again revoked in 2004. John Demjanjuk John Demjanjuk (b. ...
Motto: Ukrainian: ВолÑ, злагода, добро (Transliteration: Volya, zlahoda, dobro) (Translation: Freedom, concord, kindness) Anthem: Shche ne vmerla Ukraina (Ukraines Glory Has Not Perished) Capital Kiev1 Largest city Kiev Official language(s) Ukrainian Government President Prime Minister Parliamentary democracy Viktor Yushchenko Yuriy Yekhanurov Independence Declared Referendum From the Soviet Union August 24, 1991...
Treblinka is a small village in the Mazowieckie voivodship (province) of Poland. ...
During his first trial he was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible of Treblinka,". The OSI had evidence, which it withheld from Demjanjuk's attorneys, demonstrating that they were knowingly targeting the wrong man with forged and falsified evidence. One OSI prosecutor resigned from the Department, when his repeated written warnings that Demjanjuk was not "Ivan the Terrible" were ignored.
When the Chief Judge of the Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals learned, through reading an article in the New York Times, of the prosecutorial abuses in the Demjanjuk case, he initiated a review of the case. After Robert Mueller, then the head of the Department's Criminal Division, refused to even reply to the judge's letters and telephone calls, asking for corroboration of the New York Times allegations, the Sixth Circuit took the unusual step of appointing a Special Master to probe the conduct of the Justice Department. Eventually, the Circuit ruled in November 1993 that OSI had "acted with reckless disregard of the truth," and had carried out "prosecutorial misconduct that constituted a fraud on the court. The New York Times is an internationally known daily newspaper published in New York City and distributed in the United States and many other nations worldwide. ...
Robert Swan Mueller III (born August 7, 1944) is the current Director of the FBI. Mueller was born in New York City and grew up outside of Philadelphia. ...
Neither Attorney General Janet Reno nor the Department has ever taken responsibility for the prosecutorial misconduct. John Demjanjuk was retried and convicted of lying to enter the U.S., as he had, in fact, served as a prison guard in several Nazi prisons. He was again stripped of his citizenship in 2004. In most common law jurisdictions, the Attorney General is the main legal adviser to the government, and in some jurisdictions may in addition have executive responsibility for law enforcement or responsibility for public prosecutions. ...
Janet Reno (born July 21, 1938) was the 78th Attorney General of the United States (1993–2001), and was the first (and, so far, only) woman to hold that post. ...
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Jacques Corrèze (? - 28 June 1991) was the former CEO of LOréal USA, the US operation of LOréal, the worlds leading company in cosmetics and beauty. ...
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