It was reported that United States has deported Jakiw Palij, a 95-year-old man who served as a guard in Nazi concentration camp to Germany on Tuesday morning, 21 August 2018. His (Jakiw Palij) deportation happened 14 years after a judge ordered his expulsion from US and before his deportation, the former war crime suspect (Jakiw Palij) was living in the Queens borough (New York). Jakiw Palij was trained and served at the Trawniki concentration camp in Nazi occupied Poland in 1943, the same year 6,000 prisoners in the camps and tens of thousands of other prisoners held in occupied Poland were rounded up and slaughtered.
According to the report, Palij illegally concealed his Nazi past from immigration agents when he entered United States in 1949 under the Displaced Persons Act (a law which helps refugees from post-war Europe). He became American in 1957 and lived quietly in the United States for many years as a draftsman and later retired. About thirty years ago, investigators found Palij’s name on an old Nazi roster and a fellow former guard leaked the secret that he was living in America. When the investigators confronted him, he lied about his World War II past, claiming that he was a farmer and factory worker during the war. In 2001, he admitted to federal officials that he was trained as a Nazi guard in 1943. His US citizenship was revoked in 2003.
Viewers Corner News correspondent in Germany learnt that Jakiw Palij landed in Duesseldorf airport on Tuesday and was taken to a care facility in Ahlen (a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany).
Source: Viewers Corner News.
