Bergmann

The Government seeks to cancel the certificate of naturalization issued to the de fendant, Friedrich Walter Bergmann, a former citizen of Germany, on April 9, 1937.

As grounds for the cancellation, the Government has alleged, in its complaint, that the certificate was obtained by fraud. More particularly, it has alleged that, contrary to his representations and to his oath of allegiance, the defendant was, “not in fact attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States at the time of the filing thereof nor during the five years prior thereto; in that he did not in good faith intend to renounce absolutely and forever all allegiance and fidelity to The German Reich, of which he was then a subject, but in fact intended to retain allegiance and fidelity to the said German Reich.”

And that “he did not in fact renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to the said, The German Reich; in that he did not in fact intend to support the Constitution and laws of the United States of America against all enemies foreign and domestic; and in that he did not in fact intend to bear true faith and allegiance to the same, but in fact did intend to remain a subject of The…