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Jacob Luitjens, Dutch collaborator during World War II, dies at 103

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Jacob Luitjens, a Dutch-born UBC botany professor who lived quietly for years in Canada before he was deported to the Netherlands in 1992 to serve a decades-old prison sentence for collaborating with the Nazis. He became known as the terror of Roden, a reference to the city where he had worn the black uniform of the Landwacht, a paramilitary group that helped the Nazis arrest Jews.

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Vancouver SunVancouver Sun
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Jacob Luitjens, UBC prof deported as Nazi collaborator, dies at 103

Dutch Nazi sympathizer came to Canada, settling in Vancouver, in 1961 after years living in South America

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The Washington PostThe Washington Post
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Jacob Luitjens, Dutch collaborator during World War II, dies at 103

A fugitive for nearly half a century, he was the last Nazi collaborator imprisoned in the Netherlands for wartime crimes.

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