BERLIN — The Nazi guard lived a quiet life in a racially diverse section of New York City for decades, having lied on his United States immigration papers in 1949 about the type of work he did during World War II. But on Tuesday, he was deported to Germany, ending a 14-year battle to remove him from American soil. The expulsion of the former guard, Jakiw Palij, rid the United States of the last known surviving Nazi war crimes suspect on American soil, bringing to a close a long-vexed effort by the government to deport him. In 2004, a federal immigration judge ordered that Mr. Palij be deported. But for years, American officials failed to persuade any country to accept a man born in what was once Poland and is now Ukraine, and who had served a murderous German regime.

Source: New York Times August 21, 2018 12:56 UTC