The uncertain role of innocence in United States efforts to deport Nazi war criminals
In the thirty years following the Second World War, the US Immigration and Naturalisation Service (INS) prosecuted only one of the war criminals who had been residing in the US. In response to criticisms of inaction in this area the US Attorney-General created the Office of Special Investigations (OSI) to prosecute war criminals. To date OSI has nvestigated over 300 individuals. The author maintains that prosecution of war criminals is laudable; however, the accused in these proceedings are never allowed a right to trial on the merits of the war crime charge, focusing instead upon the illegal procurement of their citizenship. The author examines the denaturalisation laws of the US; due process concerns; the use of Soviet source evidence; trials on the merits; and related case law
Downloadable Article, 1988