Jacob Luitjens (18 April 1919 – 14 December 2022) was a Dutch collaborator during World War II.
After the war, on 10 September 1948, Luitjens was convicted and sentenced in absentia to life imprisonment.
He evaded this punishment by fleeing to Paraguay, aided by Mennonites,[1] using the name "Gerhard Harder".
He immigrated to Canada in 1961, where he became an instructor in the Department of Botany at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Ian Kagedan of B'nai Brith Canada characterized the deportation as part of an ongoing "quest" to bring Nazi war criminals to justice.