Australian Minister of Immigration Harold Holt, whose program to admit 100,000 German “volksdeutsche” immigrants to Australia in the next four years has come under sharp attacks by Jewish, labor and liberal circles, has written to the Executive Council of Australian Jewry asserting that only three former Nazis have entered this country as immigrants. He added that two of the three have since been deported.
The Executive Council, however, has submitted to him evidence that at least 41 known Nazis have entered Australia as immigrants. The body is also working on the cases of 100 immigrants believed to be former Nazis. The material is being pleed before the government to support the Jews’ contentions that present immigrant screening methods are inadequate.
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