US deports ex-Nazi guard, now 95, to Germany

BERLIN — The Nazi guard lived a quiet life in New York City for decades, having lied on his U.S. visa application and immigrated as a war refugee in 1949. But Tuesday, he was deported to Germany, ending a 14-year battle to remove him from U.S. soil.

The former guard, Jakiw Palij, is believed to have been the last surviving Nazi war crimes suspect living in the United States. First tracked down in the United States by investigators in 1993 and stripped of his U.S. citizenship 10 years later, Palij has faced deportation since 2004. But for years, no country would accept him.