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Federal Court orders release of some secret material in Nazi war crimes study
Justice Simon Fothergill said the government had not shown that releasing the passages would harm Canada-U.S. relations.
- Federal Court Justice Simon Fothergill ordered the government to release previously redacted portions of the Rodal Report, a study detailing the resettlement of alleged Nazi war criminals in Canada after the Second World War.
- Jewish advocacy group B'nai Brith Canada had fought for years to view the complete study, which discusses a secret American government program to resettle Nazis and collaborators by evading security screenings.
- Justice Fothergill rejected the federal government's argument that releasing the information would harm international relations, noting that the Central Intelligence Agency and the American government had already released similar material years ago.
- Richard Robertson, B'nai Brith's director of advocacy, criticized the government's continued hesitation to disclose its Nazi past, calling the refusal "perplexing to say the least."
- Officials are examining whether to release a list of 900 alleged Nazi war criminals compiled in 1986, while the Department of Canadian Heritage previously removed names of alleged collaborators from a memorial in Ottawa.
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The Federal Court ordered the disclosure of some redacted passages from a 1986 study conducted for a war crimes commission of inquiry.
·Montreal, Canada
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GrowCola.comParts of 1986 report on Nazis in Canada must be made public, court rules
A 618-page report from 1986 examining the postwar arrival in Canada of those alleged of Nazi war crimes still hasn't been fully declassified, but certain segments must now be made public, according to a recent Federal Court ruling.
·Toronto, Canada
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Judge orders Canada to release redacted details of US Nazi resettlement program
"It is a scandal that, during a time when Canada maintained severe restrictions on Jewish immigration to this country, it facilitated the entry of perpetrators of Nazi crimes," said Simon Wolle, CEO of B’nai Brith Canada.
·Jerusalem, Israel
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