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Washington (JTA) — An
American-born man who
worked as a guard in three
Nazi concentration camps
has been stripped of his U.S.
citizenship and now faces
deportation proceedings.
If deported, he would
become the first U.S.-born
citizen to be removed from
this country for war crimes.
Nikolaus Schiffer, 74, a
native of Philadelphia, was
denaturalized last week for
having lied about his war-
time service at the Ma-
jdanek death camp in
Poland, the Sachsenhausen
concentration camp in Ger-
many and Hersbrouck, a
subcamp of the Flossenburg
concentration camp, also in
Germany.
Although 46 people to date
have had their U.S. citizen-
ship revoked fOr concealing
their involvement in the
Nazi persecution of Jews
during the Holocaust, all
have been foreign-born.
Mr. Schiffer's attorney,
William Jones, said he ex-
pected to appeal the ruling,
according to a report in the
Philadelphia Inquirer.
Mr. Schiffer was not
implicated in any specific
crimes as an SS guard. But
after hearing testimony
from concentration camp
survivors and others last
March during a non-jury
trial in Easton, Pa., U.S.
District Judge Franklin Van
Antwerpen ruled that Mr.
Schiffer had illegally
regained his U.S. citizenship
by concealing his wartime
service.
He originally lost his U.S.
citizenship when he joined
the Romanian army and the
Nazi SS, and pledged
allegiance to Adolf Hitler.
Mr. Schiffer, a retired
baker who has been living in
New Ringgold, a religious
conclave in Pennsylvania,
was born to ethnic German
parents. As a child he was
taken to Romania, where he
grew up in Moravitza, an
et"inic German town in
Romania.
Mr. Schiffer maintained
that he did nothing wrong,
but the judge ruled this
ludicrous.
"We find much of
Schiffer's testimony
unbelievable," Judge Van
Antwerpen wrote in an 82-
pap , decision.
In th ruling, the judge
noted that although Mr.
Schiffer had not been at the

Trawniki, Poland, forced-
labor camp in November
1943, when the Nazis
massa.g-r-e-e-
c6,000 Jews, he
was there in January 1944,
when Jewish prisoners were
ordered to excavate the
bodies of the slain Jews and
burn them.
According to Mr. Schiffer's
testimony, he saw nothing,
heard nothing and smelled
nothing at the camp.
But the judge noted in a
footnote to his ruling that
"in general, the testimony of
former concentration camp
guards is notoriously
unreliable.
"Former camp guards fac-
ing denaturalization fre-
quently claim to have served
involuntarily, to have been
stationed only on the camp
periphery, to have been un-
aware of any mistreatment
or punishment of prisoners,
to have seen nothing and
heard nothing," he wrote.
Mr. Schiffer must sur-
render his naturalization

Mr. Schiffer was
not implicated in
any specific
crimes as an
SS guard.

papers in 60 days, when the
government could initiate
deportation proceedings
against him.
Meanwhile, the U.S.
Justice Department and its
Ukrainian counterpart have
signed a memorandum of
understanding to pursue
Nazi war criminals.
The memorandum, signed
by Deputy Attorney General
Philip Heymann and Ukrai-
nian Procurator General
Victor Shishkin, provides for
mutual "legal assistance in
conducting investigations
concerning individuals who
are suspected of having
committed Nazi war crimes
or having assisted in the
commission of such crimes."
The agreement, which
replaces one that was signed
with the procurator general
of the former Soviet Union
in 1989, will allow the
Justice Department's Office
of Special Investigations to
conduct interviews and take
witness testimony in
Ukraine. ❑