The Justice Department is seeking to strip a German-born, California resident of U.S. citizenship for having concealed his membership in the Nazi Party and the Gestapo. The Department charged yesterday that Otto Albrecht Alfred von Bolschwing, 72, who became a U.S. citizen in 1952, illegally obtained citizenship by lying about his Nazi activity.
In a complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Sacramento, the Department said von Bolschwing, of Carmichael, had worked with Adolph Eichmann in planning programs of persecution and forced immigration of Jews. Eichmann was captured by Israelis in Argentina in 1960 and executed in Israel in 1962 after a long trial.
The Justice Department charged that von Bolschwing was not a person of good moral character because of his participation “in the Nazi policy of racial, religious and political persecution … and because he procured his citizenship by concealment of material facts.”
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