Canadian Jewish officials are upset over a court decision to reinstate the citizenship of a World War II criminal. The reaction by the Canadian Jewish Congress came after the appeals court overturned an order revoking the citizenship of Helmut Oberlander, a former member of a notorious Nazi killing unit responsible for the murder of tens of thousands of Jews.
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