The U.S. Justice Department is seeking the deportation of a former machinist who lives in a Cleveland suburb, saying he served as a Nazi concentration camp guard. The department’s Office of Special Investigations alleges that Wasyl Krysa assisted in atrocities in a concentration camp in Poland and lied about his wartime past when he applied for a U.S. visa in 1951.
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