Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard, is carried on a stretcher from his home in the Queens borough of New York. ICE agents were seen wheeling Palij in a wheelchair from his home in Queens on their way to the airport, where ICE arranged a medical flight. Palij admitted to Justice Department officials in 2001 that he had trained at the SS training camp in Trawniki, in Nazi-occupied Poland, in the spring of 1943. Justice Department officials said by helping prevent the prisoners’ escape during his time at Trawniki, Palij played “an indispensable role” in the killings that came later. “Nazi prison guards have no place in the USA,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a tweet.

Source: Washington Post August 21, 2018 15:34 UTC