Jakiw Palij, a 95-year-old former SS labor camp guard who was deported from the United States earlier in the day, will be placed in an elderly care home in Germany, media reported on Tuesday.
MOSCOW (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 21st August, 2018) Jakiw Palij, a 95-year-old former SS labor camp guard who was deported from the United States earlier in the day, will be placed in an elderly care home in Germany, media reported on Tuesday.
Earlier in the day, the White House announced that Palij, believed to be the last Nazi collaborator living on the US soil, had been deported to Germany.
According to the Bild newspaper, a plane with Palij on board landed in Dusseldorf in the morning. The former Nazi collaborator is expected to be transferred by an ambulance to an elderly care home in Warendorf district, which is located close to the city of Muenster.
Palij, who was born in 1923 in Polands Pyadyky (modern Ukraine), immigrated to the United States in 1949 and received the US citizenship in 1957 after hiding his Nazi past. In 2001, Palij admitted to the US Justice Department officials that he had been trained at a Nazi camp. In 2003, a Federal judge revoked his citizenship after it became clear that Palij served as an armed guard at the Trawniki concentration camp in Poland, including on November 3, 1943, when nearly 6,000 Jewish prisoners were killed. In 2004, Palij was ordered to be deported. In 2005, the court dismissed his appeal.
There has been no official information so far whether Palij would face prosecution in Germany over his wartime crimes.
