Former Nazi stripped of U.S. citizenship

Press, 13 September 1988, Page 15

Former Nazi stripped of U.S. citizenship

NZPA-Reuter Trenton A former member of Adolf Hitler’s SS forces who had concealed his record as a Nazi death camp guard at Auschwitz was ordered stripped of his United States citizenship by a Federal court judge. The U.S. Attorney’s office said Judge Clarkson Fisher ruled that the former SS officer, 63-year-old Stefan Reger, be stripped of the citizenship he had held since 1957.

Reger, a general contractor from Hamilton Township, had admitted serving as an Auschwitz II (Birkenau) guard between 1943 and 1945 during an interview with the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations (0.5.1.), it said. Reger was born in Yugoslavia and emigrated to the United States in 1952.

The U.S. Attorney’s office said in a statement that Reger admitted he had misrepresented his wartime record to United States officials, saying he had served in a combat unit instead of the concentration camp in Nazioccupied Poland. Reger’s attorney said his client was now living in Germany, although he did not specify where, and a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office said he would not be allowed to return to the United States. The 0.5.1. Director, Niel Sher, said the decision resulted from a continuing investigation of Nazi persecutors residing illegally in the United States. He said 32 people had been denaturalised and 600 more were still being investigated for their Nazi activities.