ROANOKE TIMES
Copyright (c) 1997, Roanoke Times
DATE: Wednesday, January 1, 1997 TAG: 9701020053
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL PAGE: A-4 EDITION: HOLIDAY
Accused Nazi fires at police, is shot
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - A man who was accused Tuesday of being a Nazi death camp guard fired at reporters and police outside his home before he was shot in the leg by police.
About 90 minutes before the shooting, the Justice Department filed papers in federal court seeking to strip Michael Kolnhofer, 79, of his naturalized U.S. citizenship. Officials alleged he concealed his concentration camp ties when he applied for citizenship in 1952.
Kolnhofer's attorney said he denies being a concentration camp guard, but a television reporter who went to Kolnhofer's home said he had told her he had been a death camp guard.
WDAF-TV reporter Teri Schaefer said he told her he was ``just a soldier.''
After Schaefer walked away, Kolnhofer went inside his house and returned with a gun. He waved the gun at reporters, yelling at them to leave. When police were called to the scene, he fired shots and police returned fire.
Citing captured wartime Nazi records, the Justice Department said Kolnhofer became a member of the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion at Sachsenhausen, near Berlin, in 1943, serving as a guard for one year.
SS personnel records show Kolnhofer was transferred in 1944 to Buchenwald concentration camp near Weimar, Germany.
- Associated Press
Forest Service bias alleged by blacks
COLUMBIA, S.C. - Black employees of the U.S. Forest Service are accusing the agency's Southeast offices of discrimination, bypassing them for promotions and raises, and punishing them for complaining.
``Just like the farmers, we've had these problems for years, but people have refused to listen,'' said Gina Jones, a personnel specialist at Francis Marion and Sumter national forests in South Carolina.
Jones is one of three women seeking an Equal Employment Opportunities Commission class-action lawsuit against the Agriculture Department on behalf of almost 300 black Forest Service employees in 12 states, including Virginia, and Puerto Rico.
- Associated Press
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