The Nation - News from Nov. 8, 1985
The government asked a federal judge in Waterbury, Conn., to order the deportation of a former Yale lecturer accused of being a Nazi collaborator who called for the extermination of Jews. Vladimir Sokolov, 73, of Milford wrote anti-Semitic, pro-Nazi propaganda for Russian-language newspapers during World War II and concealed his past when admitted to the United States in 1951, prosecutors told U.S. District Judge Thomas J. Murphy Sr. Sokolov, the first of about 25 alleged Nazi collaborators to face civil proceedings brought by the Office of Special Investigations, denied the charges. Sokolov worked at Yale as a Russian-language lecturer from 1959 to 1976.
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