The Region - News from Jan. 29, 1986

A retired La Habra grocery clerk facing deportation on charges that he was a Nazi war criminal has denied all accusations, but was ordered to appear for Immigration Court trial Sept. 8. The U.S. Department of Justice said Bruno Blach, 65, a native of Czechoslovakia, served as a Waffen SS guard at the Dachau and Wiener-Neudorf death camps, and senior federal trial attorney Bruce Einhorn called the case against him “among the strongest in my six years . . . with the department.” But Blach’s lawyer, Ronald Parker of Fullerton, pointed out that the evidence might not be reliable since it is all at least 45 years old.