TROY, Mich., Aug. 31 (UPI) -- Removal proceedings have begun against a Troy, Mich., man officials said shot Jews while serving as a Nazi police officer during World War II, officials said.
The U.S. Justice Department initiated the proceedings against John Kalymon, who officials said was a member of the Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police in occupied Lvov, Ukraine, during World War II, Assistant Attorney General Lanny Breuer of the Justice Department's Criminal Division said Monday in a news release.
The charging document was filed Thursday in U.S. Immigration Court in Detroit. It alleged Kalymon, as a UAP member, shot Jews and killed at least one. It also charged he participated in anti-Jewish operations in which Jews were forcibly deported to be killed at the Belzec extermination center or work as slave laborers.
"These charges once again demonstrate the resolve of the Department of Justice to deny safe haven in this country to human rights violators, no matter how long ago they committed their heinous acts," Breuer said.
A federal court in March 2007 revoked Kalymon's naturalized U.S. citizenship. Kalymon, 88, admitted during that court proceeding he fled with retreating German forces in 1944 and came to the United States in May 1949, hiding his UAP service from U.S. immigration officials.
