Nazi camp guard dies

Jakiw Palij, a former Nazi concentration camp guard who lived an unassuming life in New York City for decades until his past was revealed and he was deported to Germany last year, has died, German media reported yesterday. He was 95. German officials were quoted as saying Palij died on Thursday in a care home in the town of Ahlen. US Ambassador Richard Grenell, who lobbied for Germany to take Palij, said he had been informed of the death. Palij was the last Nazi facing deportation from the

United States when he was taken from his Queens home on a stretcher and put on a plane to Germany.