The last Nazi war crimes suspect facing deportation from the United States was taken from his New York City home and spirited early Tuesday morning to Germany, the White House said.
The deportation of Jakiw Palij, a 95-year-old former concentration camp guard, came 25 years after investigators first confronted him about his Second World War past and he admitted lying to get into the U.S., claiming he spent the war as a farmer and factory worker.
Palij lived quietly in the U.S. for years, as a draftsman and then as a retiree, until nearly three decades ago when investigators found his name on an old Nazi roster and a fellow former guard spilled the secret that he was "living somewhere in America."
Palij told Justice Department investigators who showed up at his door in 1993: "I would never have received my visa if I told the truth. Everyone lied."
A judge stripped Palij's citizenship in 2003 for "participation in acts against Jewish civilians" while he was an armed guard at the Trawniki camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, and he was ordered deported a year later. (more...)
Justice at last? Not even close. More like a dark comedy:
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