Walter Obodzinsky

Walter Obodzinsky (5 July 1919 – 6 March 2004), He gained notoriety when the Canadian government sought to revoke his citizenship in 1999, on the basis that Obodzinsky had concealed his past Nazi activities.

Life Obodzinsky was born July 5, 1919, in Turzec, Poland. Obodzinsky joined an auxiliary police unit under the command of Heinrich Himmler in 1941. The unit later participated in the massacre of 1300-1500 Jews in the ghetto of Mir, Belarus.

From March to July 1944, Obodzinsky was a member of the Wehrmacht.

Canadian deportation proceedings In late 1946, Obodzinsky gained temporary admission to Canada from Italy. He was permanently admitted to Canada in 1950, and gained Canadian citizenship in 1955. In 1994, based on information received by the Canadian War Crimes Investigation Unit from the British War Crimes Investigation Unit, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police opened an investigation into Obodzinsky's activities during World War II.

In a 2003 ruling that ultimately revoked Obodzinsky's Canadian citizenship, Justice François Lemieux of the Federal Court of Canada described Obodzinsky as "an accomplice in the perpetration of atrocities committed, undeniably, during the German occupation of Belarus." The Government of Canada suspended its attempts to denaturalize Obodzinsky following his death on March 6, 2004.