Albert Helmut Rauca was disclosed today to have withdrawn his appeal to the Supreme Court of Canada against lower court orders that he be extradited to West Germany to face charges of wartime mass murders of Jews.
Rauca, 74, a Canadian citizen since 1956, was convicted in absentia in Holland for the murder of several persons. Barring a personal petition to the Canadian Justice Ministry, Rauca, a retired hotel manager, will be extradited to face trial for the murder of 11,584 Jews in German-occupied Lithuania between 1941 and 1943.
Rauca, the first person accused of Nazi war crimes in Canada, was arrested in his Toronto home last June and has been in a city jail since, though it was understood he could have been free on bail. Rauca had appealed to the Surpeme Court an order of the Ontario Court of Appeals rejecting his claim that he was guaranteed the right to remain in Canada under the federal Charter of Rights because he is a Canadian citizen.
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