For decades, the US Department of Justice has used a tool to sniff out former Nazis who lied their way into becoming American citizens: a law that allowed the department to denaturalize, or strip, citizenship from criminals who falsified their records or hid their illicit pasts.
Bullshit: Operation paperclip immediately came to mind.
Osenberg List
Yeah, and what’s better blackmail material than holding some nazi scientist’s –real or made up by the intelligence agencies– past over their head, knowing that it can get them thrown out of the country without any recourse. It wouldn’t surprise me that the ghouls at the OSS (later CIA) knew exactly who they were dealing with, and had as many countermeasures as possible set up in case one of the paperclip’d people ever deviated from American interests.
operation paperclip was fucked, but when i think of the darkest legacy of US-controlled nazi ratlines, i think of Operation Bloodstone, which specifically targeted violent sadists and hands-on mass murderers like Klaus Barbie (aka The Butcher of Lyon) to be protected from post-war prosecution, transported safely with new identities, and redeployed around the world to continue specifically doing terrorism to the populace of any state that seemed to be considering left politics by training and supporting torture campaigns specifically to repress popular movements.
some people can justify “oh well we needed their scientific knowledge” for weapons development. i’m not one of those people, but i’ve heard some make the attempt. bringing up Bloodstone cuts through all the shit and shows how the US intelligence apparatus specifically sought out the most vicious and repurposed them to train others and develop entire projects targeting teachers, journalists, and intellectuals who spoke against the puppet governments of the US. it shows how our government had no moral problem with nazis, barbarism, secret police, disappearances of civilians, torture, or any of it, and in fact wanted to replicate those repressive techniques elsewhere.
Even non-politically Amerikkkan ratfuckery makes the nonexistence of justice make sense.
Of course this “culture” rewards losers and bullies and will punish those who stand up to them.
Is there even a single instance of this happening to Nazis entering the US?
Actually, quite a few. Basically all of them were small fry who did war crimes.
Operation Paperclip initially started as the Osenberg List as the Nazi government tried to shift intellectuals back into the MIC as it became apparent that the Soviet Union would not come crashing down. They really did think they could just advance the front at marching speed all the way to Kamchatka. When that obviously didn’t happen, the Nazis began compiling a list of guys smart enough to try to make some wunderwaffen who were primarily in non-combat roles like transpo or KP. Someone found a copy of the list in a toilet (lmao) at University of Bonn and sent it to MI6.
Not deported from the United States in a settlement with the government that required him to give up his citizenship and nationality in 1984;[12] died in 1989.
Yugoslavia requested extradition 1951; request rejected 1959; deported 1986 to Yugoslavia. Sentenced to death, but not executed due to age and health. Died in a prison hospital in 1988, aged 88
Left the country in February 1984 for West Germany, where he renounced his US citizenship as part of a deal to avoid prosecution.[14] Died in 1998.[1]
Ordered deported to Germany in 1993, but deportation was never carried out due to his health; died in 1994.[19]
The US sucks so fucking hard. Dragged their feet in every instance. Couldn’t care much less than this.
Yeah, this stuff should be read as malicious noncompliance on the part of the US government.
This law will deport literally ZERO nazis and untold scores of people born here for wrongthink.
