Russia has asked Canada to hand over case files on a 95-year-old former Nazi death squad member living in Waterloo, Ontario, to help Moscow with an investigation into the mass murder of children at a Soviet orphanage in 1942, Reuters reports.

Helmut Oberlander, who was born in Ukraine and became a German citizen during World War Two, was stripped of his post-war Canadian citizenship when Canada learned of his wartime activities.


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