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During his emigration in 1954 and naturalization in 1960, the former Nazi did not say that he had been a member of an Einsatzkommando. These groups massacred tens of thousands of Jews, communists, partisans, intellectuals and gypsies in Eastern Europe behind the front.
Canada has been trying to expel the former Nazi since 1995. Although the Canadian Department of Immigration stripped Oberlander of his Canadian citizenship back in 2001, 2007 and 2012, Oberlander was allowed to stay all those years after the appeal decisions were quashed.
Oberlander was on the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s most wanted war criminals list. His relatives told local media that the Ukrainian-born Oberlander who also naturalized in Germany “remained strong and rock solid despite all the challenges in his life.”
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