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U.S. v. WITTJE

No. 03 C 6367.

333 F.Supp.2d 737 (2004)

UNITED STATES of America, Plaintiff, v. Joseph WITTJE, Defendant.

United States District Court, N.D. Illinois, Eastern Division.

August 27, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, Linda Wawzenski, Assistant United States Attorney, Chicago, IL, Eli M. Rosenbaum, Director, Susan L. Siegal, Principal Deputy Director, Jeffrey L. Menkin, Gregory S. Gordon, Senior Trial Attorneys, United States Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Office of Special Investigations, Washington, D.C., for plaintiff.

Joseph T. McGinness, Cleveland, OH, for Defendant.

MEMORANDUM OPINION AND ORDER

CONLON, District Judge.

This dispute concerns the citizenship of Joseph Wittje, an ethnic German from Romania who immigrated to the United States in 1950 and obtained citizenship in 1959. From 1943-1945, Wittje was a Nazi Waffen SS guard at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp near Berlin, Germany. The United States contends that Wittje's membership in the Waffen SS and his...

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