Posted on 08/21/2018 8:16:21 PM PDT by TaxPayer2000
A man who authorities believe is the last known Nazi collaborator living in the U.S. has been arrested and deported to Germany.
At the order of President Donald Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents removed 95-year-old Jakiw Palij from his Queens, New York, home on Monday.
Justice Department officials say Palij served as an armed guard at a death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland and later lied to American immigration officials about his role in those atrocities when he entered the U.S. after the war.
ABC News was there when Palij was removed by wheelchair from his home on Monday, but he did not answer any questions. Looking frail with missing front teeth visible through his white beard, the only noise he made was a pained howl as agents hoisted him from his wheelchair onto the ambulance stretcher.
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He is NOT the last Nazi. Soros is still here.
See? I do the we all gonna die bullsh!t better. And I don’t make you buy vitamins.
But we still all gonna die. Cuz...aliens. IDK.
Hes Polish
But never mind....nothing gets freepers going more than virtue signaling over Nazis
I know yall are having fun with this but I actually did bother to read up on it
Im mixed about his guilt leaning towards guilty but not beyond a reasonable doubt
Hes been convicted by the proximity of his posting(Trawniki) to a Jewish labor camp nearby even though he wasnt listed at that precise Jewish labor camp where 6000 Jews were shot in 1943
Trawniki where he trained with the SS closed in 1944
Palij was 18 in 1942 I think ...
He has been held in limbo since 2004 when Bush revoked his naturalization at the request of I think Simon Wiesenthal center and corresponding DOJ unit
And nobody wanted him till now when. Donaldus Maximus persuaded Merkel to take him even though hes Polish
He will go to a home for the elderly per NPR
Not prison
This is a PR action....fair enough..Im just reporting what I read
Except thst last sentence and the fact this has Javanka handiwork prints on it is my guess
This guy was 22 years old when World War Two ended.
He was born in 1923 and lived his first 8 years in the violent political and economic chaos of post-World War One Germany.
In 1933, the Great Depression reached its catastrophic peak, Hitler was elected, and Germany descended into a totalitarian police state.
He probably worked in a fire brigade or on an AA gun installation in 1939 and 1940.
He was drafted in 1940 or 1941, after eight more years of indoctrination in Nazi schools and youth camps.
He was 20 years old when he participated in the mass slaughter at Treblinka.
How many of the readers on this thread would have had the courage and the serenity of mind at age 20 to throw down their rifles and refuse to kill innocent people?
Not many, I think. Not me, anyway.
Jakiw is a Ukrainian name, but the spelling is apparently Polish. He’s from southeastern Poland, which was incorporated into the Soviet Union as Western Ukraine following the Soviet invasion of Poland in 1939. He probably joined up with the Nazis after they overran the area in 1941.
We need to straighten up that this person was not a German. He was probably Polish (just by name alone) due to his location.
This fact goes for both sides here. Some are commenting as if he was German.
Exactly my sentiments.
Sick of all this virtue-signaling where the only boogeyman ever was Hitler and official NAZIs his willing evil accomplices.
As if major atrocities never happened any other time or place. So unoriginal.
How many of the people he helped to murder would, but for him, also have lived to be 95 year old guys in wheelchairs? No sympathy for him. He willingly murdered thousands, supported a regime that murdered millions, and lied about it so he could live a good life in the USA. But for the President, this piece of garbage would still be here.
Good riddance.
Amen to that.
Should have been gone when discovered in 2004.
We did not have a President who would do it until now.
And now we have another 10 million illegal aliens on top of the 20 million at that time to also worry about.
This fact goes for both sides here. Some are commenting as if he was German.
See #47. He was from southeastern Poland which was annexed by the Soviet Union after it invaded Poland in 1939. The territory is part of Ukraine today.
"Jakiw" is a Ukrainian name, but the spelling is Polish
How many Koreans do you hate for giving in and accomplicing the Japs at their prisons?
If you are suggesting this Nazi was forced to join the SS, then where is your evidence? The SS was the arm of the Nazi security state whose primary mission was to liquidate Jews and other “undesirables.” If this Nazi was forced to work for the SS, why did he not disclose this fact when he applied for US citizenship. His failure to do so speaks volumes about the voluntary nature of his wartime activities. But, if there are Koreans in the US who lied about their assistance to the Japanese in order to become US citizens, then they should suffer the same fate as the Nazi.
The entire linked article has been re-written since I read it last night.
The original article said he was born and grew up in a farming town (did not recognize the name) in Germany.
This article says he was born in Ukraine.
Bottom Line - if the first article had said he was born in Ukraine, I would not have written my Comment.
Where is it that he was SS?
Do you think it was easy for people anywhere occupied to just abstain from being a NAZI? How many Russians were NOT members of the Communist Party? Or are you going to blame them for not making enough effort to fight or flee?
If they were not in the party, they were in the camps, as prisoners.
But then, Im no expert on these things, mostly only knowing really what the world wants us to know topically.
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