Karl Linnas
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Karl Linnas | |
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Born | War crimes | August 6, 1919
Criminal penalty | Death; commuted to life imprisonment |
Karl Linnas (August 6, 1919 – July 2, 1987) was an Estonian who was sentenced to death during the
Linnas was
Deportation from the United States
Linnas worked as a land surveyor living in Greenlawn, New York, until 1979, when U.S. immigration officials charged him with making false statements to gain entry to the United States.
The Office of Special Investigations of the U.S. Justice Department prosecuted Linnas.[3] In 1981, the Federal District Court in Westbury, New York, stripped Linnas of his American citizenship for having lied to immigration officials 30 years earlier about his Nazi past. Linnas's crimes, the judge said, "were such as to offend the decency of any civilized society." A 1986 federal appeals court decision upheld the order for his deportation, ruling that the evidence against the defendant was "overwhelming and largely uncontroverted." In April 1986, as Linnas awaited the outcome of his final appeal, a federal judge ordered him imprisoned to prevent him from fleeing the country.[2][4]
On April 20, 1987, the
References
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Jerome S. Legge Jr. (2010). "The Karl Linnas Deportation Case, the Office of Special Investigations, and American Ethnic Politics". ISSN 8756-6583.
- ^ a b "Karl Linnas, Petitioner, v. Immigration & Naturalization Service, Respondent, 790 F.2d 1024 (2d Cir. 1986)". Justia Law. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
- ^ Feigin, Judy and Mark M. Richard (December 2006). The Office of Special Investigations: Striving for Accountability in the Aftermath of the Holocaust (Report). US Department of Justice, Criminal Division. p. 271. Retrieved 7 Nov 2015.
- ^ "LINNAS DIES IN SOVIET UNION". Chicago Tribune. 3 July 1987. Retrieved 2023-02-07.
- ^ "Deportation of Karl Linnas". Los Angeles Times. 1987-04-01. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
- ^ "Deported Nazi Linnas Dies in Soviet Hospital". Los Angeles Times. 2 July 1987. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2022-05-21.
- ^ "LINNAS DIES IN U.S.S.R". The Washington Post.
Cited sources
- Ashman, Charles and Wagman, Robert J. The Nazi Hunters. New York: Pharos Books, 1988.
- Henry Kamm. Estonian deported by U.S. arrives in Soviet
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