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Canada has a secret list of suspected Nazis. This historian found the files online

JL;DR SUMMARY Jared McBride and his students uncovered a trove of historical RCMP war crimes files detailing investigations into alleged Nazi war criminals who entered Canada, long thought to be secret but actually accessible online for five years. A way out west there was a fella, fella I want to tell you about, fella by the name of Jeff Lebowski.

  • At least, that was the handle his lovin' parents gave him, but he never had much use for it himself.
  • This Lebowski, he called himself the Dude.
  • Now, Dude, that's a name no one would self-apply where I come from.
  • But then, there was a lot about the Dude that didn't make a whole lot of sense to me.
  • And a lot about where he lived, likewise. But then again, maybe that's why I found the place s'durned innarestin'.
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HolocaustJewish OrganizationsCanadaNazi War CriminalsLegal ChallengesRcmpDeschênes CommissionArchive DisclosureJared McbrideHistorical Investigations

Places mentioned

Canada
"In Canada, for nearly 40 years, Jewish groups have been appealing to our government's national archives to do the same."
Argentina
"That's a news show from Argentina a few days ago after their president announced his country will release all its files related to thousands of Nazi war criminals."
Netherlands
"The Netherlands made a similar decision in January."
Los Angeles, California, United States
"But now, though, a class of history students and their professor at the University of California in Los Angeles appear to have found the names."
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
"McBride saw the new RCMP files that his students found, he wasn't surprised to see people mentioned like Helmut Oberlander of Waterloo-On-Town."
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