The Nation - News from Feb. 5, 1988

An Orthodox Jew who collaborated with his captors in a Nazi concentration camp will be stripped of his U.S. citizenship but allowed to remain in the country under an agreement in which he admits his war crimes, federal officials said. The case of Jacob Tannenbaum, 72, of Brooklyn, is believed to be the first involving the possible deportation of a Jewish collaborator with the Nazis. Tannenbaum, who lost his 2003396197health, but he must submit his medical records and doctors’ reports every six months, said officials in the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations. Under the agreement, Tannenbaum admits he served as a camp capo at the Goerlitz concentration camp in what is now East Germany from September, 1944, to May, 1945, and admits “he participated in persecution by brutalizing and physically abusing prisoners,” the agreement says.