A former Nazi concentration camp guard who was deported from the US back to Germany after he was found living in Queens died on Thursday, aged 95.
Jakiw Palij, thought to be the last Nazi liaison living in the US, was deported back to Germany last year after a lengthy citizenship battle.
He had been living in the New York borough of Queens when details about his secret Nazi past were unearthed by authorities in 2003.
The discovery of his links to the Third Reich sparked outrage in the area and his home was regularly subjected to picketed protests demanding his deportation.
Jakiw Palij (pictured on August 20, 2018) became the last Nazi to be deported from the US, after a 15 year legal battle. He had been living in Queens, New York, before details about his heinous past were revealed in 2003. He died on Thursday in Germany
Eventually, in August last year, Palij was escorted from his home in a wheelchair and banished back to Germany after they agreed to provide him residency.
German media have reported that Palij died on January 10 in a retirement home in Ahlen, near Dortmund.
US Ambassador Richard Grenell, who lobbied for Germany to take Palij in, said: 'It would have been very upsetting to many Americans if he had died in the US in what many viewed as a comfortable escape.'
Born in 1925 in Ukraine, Palij entered the U.S. in 1949 under the Displaced Persons Act, a law meant to help refugees from postwar Europe.
In 1949 Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, lied to US immigration officers telling them he'd never served in the military and had spent the work working at a farm and in a factory
At the time he told immigration officers he'd been working at a woodshop and farm during the war in Nazi-occupied Poland, and later at a upholstery factory in Germany.
He claimed he never served in the military.
However, the U.S. Justice Department said he played an essential role in the Nazi program to exterminate Jews as an armed guard at the Trawniki concentration camp.
When investigators knocked on his door in 1993, he told them: 'I would never have received my visa if I told the truth. Everyone lied.'
According to the Justice Department, Palij served in a unit that 'committed atrocities against Polish civilians and other', and then in the notorious SS Streibel Battalion, 'a unit whose function was to round up and guard thousands of Polish civilian forced laborers.'
He shared a red-stone home in Queen with his late wife, Maria for several decades
After his past became public his home was regularly picketed by furious New Yorkers, calling for his deportation (as shown in April 2017)
Palij served at Trawniki in 1943, when 6,000 prisoners in the camps and tens of thousands of other prisoners held in occupied Poland were slaughtered.
Eventually, the Nazi collaborator admitted to serving in Trawniki but denied his involvement in any war crimes.
Palij was never convicted of any crimes in the US, as none of those speculated happened on American soil and the victims weren't American.
His US citizenship was revoked in 2003 for 'participation in acts against Jewish civilians'.
He lived in limbo for the next 15 years as Germany, Poland, Ukraine and other countries refused to grant him citizenship.
But a diplomatic push last year finally convinced Germany to claim Palij.
Once extradited, German investigators concluded there wasn't enough evidence of wartime criminal activity to charge him.
The 95-year-old eventually admitted to working as a guard at the Trawniki concentration camp in 1943, but denied any involvement in war crimes. The same year he joined the camp, 6,000 prisoners at the facility were executed (Pictured: Heinrich Himmler shakes hands with new guard recruits at the Trawniki camp in 1942)
'Good riddance to this war criminal,' Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a New York Democrat, after Palij's deportation was announced.
Palij managed to live quietly in the U.S. for years until a fellow former guard told Canadian authorities in 1989 that he was 'living somewhere in America.'
Investigators asked Russia and other countries for records on Palij beginning in 1990 and first confronted him in 1993.
Palij's cover was blown in 2003 when a fellow former guard told Canadian authorities that he was living 'somewhere in America'
It wasn't until after a second interview in 2001 that he signed a document acknowledging he had been a guard at Trawniki and a member of the Streibel Battalion.
Palij suggested at one point during the interview that he was threatened with death if he refused to work as a guard, saying, 'If you don't show up, boom-boom.'
In 2017, all 29 members of New York's congressional delegation signed a letter urging the State Department to follow through on his deportation.
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Main photo article A former Nazi concentration camp guard who was deported from the US back to Germany after he was found living in Queens died on Thursday, aged 95.
Jakiw Palij, thought to be the last Nazi liaison living in the US, was deported back to Germany last year after a lengthy citizenship battle.
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