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Millions in Social Security benefits for expelled Nazis
Nazi Social Security Werm
This July 28 photo shows Jakob Denzinger's portrait on the tombstone of his empty grave in Cepin, eastern Croatia. Denzinger is among dozens of death camp guards and suspected Nazi war criminals who collected millions of dollars in Social Security payments despite being forced out of the United States, according to an Associated Press investigation. - photo by Associated Press
OSIJEK, Croatia — Former Auschwitz guard Jakob Denzinger lived the American dream. His plastics company in the Rust Belt town of Akron, Ohio, thrived. By the late 1980s, he had acquired the trappings of success: a Cadillac DeVille and a Lincoln Town Car, a lakefront home, investments in oil and real estate.
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