The World - News from Aug. 4, 1988
About 600 suspected Nazi war criminals are under investigation in the United States, and 30 denaturalization and deportation cases are pending in the courts, a U.S. Justice Department official said in Jerusalem. Neal Sher, head of the department’s Office of Special Investigations, said the growing number of proceedings against suspected war criminals is the result of an aggressive policy to seek out Nazi collaborators. “I don’t wait for someone to present me with an allegation. We seek out people,” Sher told a reporter before the opening of a conference on Nazi war criminals.
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