A Hungarian Nazi propagandist and war criminal, who was exposed by the American Jewish Committee as entering this country through Camp Kilmer with Hungarian escapees, has been deported by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, it was disclosed here today.
Dr. Odon Malnasi, former head of the Ideological Department of the Hungarian Nazi puppet regime during World War II, was escorted by immigration authorities to an airplane at Idlewild Airport today and left the United States for Austria. Dr. Malnasi had been sentenced to a long prison term at the end of World War II, after serving a portion of that term, he escaped during the recent Hungarian rebellion.
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