Alleged Nazi Labor Camp Guard Deported
An alleged Nazi labor camp guard has been deported to Germany 13 years after the U.S. government first moved to revoke his U.S. citizenship, the Justice Department said Friday.
Liudas Kairys, 72, of Chicago was deported Thursday, department officials said. He had been in federal custody since Feb. 26.
U.S. officials said Kairys was a platoon leader at the Treblinka labor camp in Poland in 1943 and 1944.
Tens of thousands of Jewish and other prisoners were forced into slave labor there, and thousands died from inhumane conditions.
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