12 October 2006
The Supreme Court of the United States has turned down the case of a former Nazi labor camp guard who said he should not be deported because he was suffering of Alzheimer's Disease. On Tuesday, the highest US court ruled that the deportation of Iwan Mandycz can stand. Lawyers for Mandycz, who served at the Trawniki and Poniatowa concentration camps, said the right that prevents the US government from prosecuting a mentally incompetent person should also apply in citizenship cases. The US Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations, the department's Nazi-hunting unit, led the case against Mandycz, who is 86.
