Judge Revokes
Man's Citizenship
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New York (JTA) — A federal
judge has revoked the citizenship
of a man who fled to Germany
last year after learning that the
U.S. government planned to act
on his Nazi past, according to the
Justice Department.
Wiatscheslaw "Chester" Ry-
dlinskis, 71, of Bloomingdale, Ill.,
is a former armed SS guard and
dog handler in Nazi concentra-
tion camps, the government said.
In 1966, he became a natural-
ized U.S. citizen.
U.S. District Court Judge
William Hart in Chicago ordered
the denaturalization July 20 af-
ter Rydlinskis, a retired drafts-
man, did not answer a December
complaint filed by the U.S. At-
torney's Office in Chicago and the
Office of Special Investigations,
the Justice Department's Nazi-
hunting unit.
The complaint alleged that Mr.
Rydlinskis joined the Waffen SS
in 1941, and served as an armed
guard and dog handler in the SS
Death's Head Battalion from
1941 to 1945 at Auschwitz,
Buchenwald and Laura, a
Buchenwald subcamp.
At Laura, Mr. Rydlinskis al-
legedly guarded the inmates to
prevent their escape as they were
evacuated — in cattle cars and
by forced marches — toward
Dachau.
The U.S. government charges
that Mr. Rydlinskis concealed his
Nazi involvement one other time
in addition to when he became
a naturalized citizen. In 1956, he
hid his past when he entered the
United States under the Refugee
Relief Act of 1953, the govern-
ment said.
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Assets Kept
By France?
• Paris (JTA) — French Nazi
/) hunter Serge Klarsfeld has
charged that the government of
France kept or sold assets be-
longing to Jews deported from the
country to death camps during
World War II.
France "should be more forth-
coming toward claimants, the
children of deported Jews," Mr.
Klarsfeld said in a recent inter-
view with the French daily news-
/ paper Liberation. "I want them
to be able to grow old with digni-
ty?,
Millions of dollars in cash,
property and valuables that had
been confiscated from 70,000
Jews before their deportation
were transferred to the French
Treasury after the war, he said.
`The parents were robbed, and
their children cannot get their
reparations," he said.
Mr. Klarsfeld's claim is based
upon a report he unearthed
signed by a French officer.
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