WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Thursday capped a swift and forceful response to an Associated Press investigation by signing into law a measure that bars suspected Nazi war criminals from receiving U.S. Social Security benefits. The AP's investigation, which was the impetus for the No Social Security for Nazis Act, found that dozens of former Nazis collected millions of dollars in retirement benefits after being forced to leave the United States. Recipients ranged from the SS guards who patrolled the Third Reich's network of camps where millions of Jews died to a rocket scientist who helped develop the V-2 rocket that Nazi Germany used to attack London. By lowering the threshold to loss of citizenship, a step known as denaturalization, the bill effectively shuts a loophole that for years had allowed suspected Nazis to continue receiving benefits even after being expelled from the U.S.
It's Law Now: 'no Social Security For Nazis'
By RICHARD LARDNER, DAVID RISING and RANDY HERSCHAFT, Associated Press, San Francisco Chronicle: Politics
Fri, 12/19/2014 - 2:00am
Topics: washington ap president barack obama associated press u.s social security the ap no social security nazis act states recipients jews v-2 nazi germany london peter carr former nazis social security administration ss nazi nazis third reich justice department law benefits rocket investigation millions suspected receiving forced
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