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FRIDAY, JULY 24, 1992
New York (JTA) — The
U.S. Justice Department has
filed a complaint to revoke
the American citizenship of
an Ohio man accused of con-
cealing his wartime past.
George Lindert, 69, a
retired aluminum worker
from Canfield, a city
southwest of Youngstown, is
accused of having been an
SS guard at a concentration
camp during World War II.
According to the Justice
Department's complaint,
Lindert joined the Waffen SS
in the spring of 1942 and
was in the SS Death's Head
Battalion at Mauthausen, in
Austria, both at its main
concentration camp and its
Loibl-Pass subcamp.
The complaint was filed
July 7 in U.S. District Court
in Cleveland by the Justice
Department's Office of Spe-
cial Investigations and the
U.S. Attorney's Office for
the Northern District of
Ohio.
It is OSI's fourth move
against a suspected Nazi
war criminal in recent
weeks.
According to the com-
plaint, Lindert concealed his
service as an SS guard when
he entered the United States
in 1955 and when he suc-
cessfully applied for U.S.
citizenship in 1962.
He came to the United
States from Salzburg,
Austria, under the Refugee
Relief Act of 1953.
For 25 years, Lindert
worked for Easco, an
aluminum manufacturing
plant in Austintown, near
Youngstown. He retired in
1985.
Lindert told the Cleveland
Plain Dealer, "I was never
SS. I was drafted in the
army. What choice did I
have? I was a guard at the
camp, but I worked along the
fence. I never saw anyone
killed."
To date, 42 Nazi war
criminals or collaborators
have been stripped of U.S.
citizenship, and 30 have
been deported.
OSI's activities have been
moving at an accelerated
clip in recent months, with
the office processing several
cases against alleged Nazis
living in various parts of the
country.
In early June, Michael
Schmidt of Lincolnwood, Ill.,
a former SS guard at the
Sachsenhausen concentra-
tion camp in Germany,
agreed to leave the country
rather than face deportation
proceedings.
The following week, OSI
filed charges of concealing --
his wartime past against
Jonas Stelmokas, a retired
Philadelphia architect
charged with having been a
high-ranking officer who
helped Nazis murder
Lithuanian Jews during-
World War
A week later, OSI filed c
similar charges against Jack
Reimer of upstate New York =,
who, the office said, took,
part in the mass killing of
Jews in Poland.
The department has been
helped in its work by new
access to documents obtain-
ed from the archives of
Lithuania, Russia, Ukraine
and other Eastern European '-
countries.
OSI has been beleaguered
of late because of doubts
shed in Israel and the
United States over the
veracity of claims that con-
victed war criminal John -
Demjanjuk was the
Treblinka concentration -
camp guard known as "Ivan
the Terrible."
Demjanjuk has been
sentenced by Israel to hang.
But now the country's High
Court of Justice is entertain-
ing doubts as to whether the
right man was convicted of
the right crimes.
Cr,
Israeli Farmer
Murdered
Tel Aviv (JTA) — An 84-
year-old citrus farmer from'
Ra'anana, north of Tel Aviv,
was murdered last week in
his grove on the outskirts of
nearby Moshav Batzra.
Avraham Kinsler was
found with his throat cut
and numerous stab woundsc
in his chest.
Police said the killing had
all the hallmarks of an in-
tifada-inspired murder by
Palestinian nationaists. But
they have not entirely ruled
out the possibility of
"private criminal murder."
Police investigations
disclosed that Mr. Kinsler,
whose wife had died three
years ago and who lived
alone since then, had gone
out as usual early in the,
morning.
He employed no workers at
this time of the year, taking I
on laborers only for citrus
picking.
Mr. Kinsler, the father of
three married daughters, I
had boasted to his friends (1--
that "it's hard work in the
grove which is keeping me
alive."