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Justice Department Moves To Have Alleged Nazi Helper Deported
Federal prosecutors have filed documents seeking the deportation of a Michigan man who has been stripped of his U.S. citizenship and charged with collaborating with Nazis during World War II.
The charges filed with the U.S. Immigration Court in Detroit allege that John Kalymon was an armed member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in L’viv, Ukraine from May 1942 to March 1944. He “personally shot Jews while serving, killing at least one,” and “participated in violent operations in which Jews were forcibly deported to be murdered in gas chambers and to serve as slave laborers.”
“With the active assistance of collaborators like John Kalymon, the Nazis annihilated some 100,000 innocent Jewish men, women and children in L’viv,” Eli Rosenbaum, director of the Office of Special Operations’ Criminal Division, said in a statement. “Participants in such crimes have forfeited any right to enjoy the precious privilege of U.S. citizenship or to continue residing in the United States.”
The 88-year-old Kalymon immigrated to the United States in 1949, and was granted citizenship in 1955 after hiding his Nazi service from immigration officials. His American citizenship was revoked in 2007 on the basis of war documents, including one which he himself wrote on Aug. 14, 1942, detailing the ammunition he had used that day against Jews.
Kalymon’s case is part of an initiative by the Justice Department that began in 1979 to take action against Nazi collaborators who live in the United States. More than 107 people so far have been either stripped of their citizenship or expelled.
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