Retraction
Canwest News Service described Helmut Oberlander as a “Nazi collaborator” in a story about a Nov. 18 court ruling that ordered the federal Cabinet to reconsider revoking his citizenship. Neither the Canadian government nor the Federal Court has stated that Oberlander was a collaborator. A judge ruled in 2000 that Oberlander worked, lived, and travelled as an interpreter for a Nazi mobile death squad and, although there was no evidence he participated in atrocities, he must have been aware of them. Further, the use of a file photograph of the Auschwitz concentration camp in the National Post to illustrate the story was inappropriate. The Post retracts the description of Oberlander in the story as a Nazi collaborator and apologizes for the use of the unrelated photo. Link
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