The federal government is seeking deportation of Alexander Lehmann, 62, accused of taking part in the execution of 300 to 350 Jews in Zaporozhe, the Ukraine, while serving as a police official in 1942.
Lehmann, a retired tool and die maker now residing in Cleveland, has been accused in Federal District Court of entering the United States illegally in 1957 by concealing his past. He denies the allegation but admits that he served as a sentry during the German occupation of the Ukraine. Lehmann is not a U.S. citizen and thus subject to deportation.
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