Former members of the Nazi Waffen S.S. units are ineligible for admission into the United States, under both the Internal Security Act and the Displaced Persons Act, it is argued in a memorandum submitted today to governmental agencies by a number of major Jewish organizations.
The memorandum maintains that under U.S. law all former Waffen S.S. members must be “excluded because they advocated and assisted in racial and religious persecution, because the S.S. and Waffen S.S. of which they were members represented a movement hostile to the United States and its form of government, and because they voluntarily bore arms against the United States and its allies during World War II.
The memorandum was submitted by the National Community Relations Advisory Council in behalf of the American Jewish Committee, the American Jewish Congress, the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith, the Jewish Labor Committee, the Jewish War Veterans of the U.S., the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and twenty-seven local Jewish councils throughout the country.
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