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June 20, 2000
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Canada accepted thousands of ex-Nazis in the years following World War II because the Soviet takeover of Eastern Europe prevented it from screening out potential war criminals, according to a new book. But Jewish groups and scholars say Howard Margolian’s “Unauthorized Entry: The Truth about Nazi War Criminals in Canada, 1946-1956” is an attempt to whitewash history.

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