Canada is struggling to deport its last known Nazi suspect
TORONTO — Helmut Oberlander and his wife disembarked from the Arosa Kulm in Quebec in 1954, shortly after Canada lifted its wartime prohibition on the entry of German nationals, and began building a new life together.
The couple settled in Waterloo, Ontario, where Oberlander became a successful real estate developer. They started a family and gained Canadian citizenship in 1960. World War II appeared to be in the rearview mirror. But decades later, the past would come back to hover over them.
During the war, Oberlander served as an interpreter for a roving Nazi death squad that killed at least 20,000 people in the eastern occupied territories. Canada stripped him of his citizenship 20 years ago for concealing those activities from immigration authorities. Now, prosecutors are in a race against time to deport the 97-year-old, whose removal case is the country’s last dating to World War II.
On Tuesday, Oberlander’s legal battle enters a new — and potentially final — phase, when the Federal Court of Canada holds a hearing on his motion to end the deportation proceedings because of an “abuse of process.”
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