Suspected World War II killer of Jews may be deported.
Catching former Nazis and other World War II war criminals in this country has to be getting easier. With most, if not all, in their 80s, they have to be slowing down.
Our newest suspect is John Kalymon, a.k.a. Iwan Kalymon a.k.a. Iv Kalymun, a former naturalized American citizen now accused of helping the Nazis and killing Jews during World War II.
The Justice Department has filed to have him deported. They’re not sure to where, but Poland is investigating the role of police in the deaths of Jews in the Ukraine, Kalymon’s homeland. Until 1939 the Ukrainian area from which he comes was part of Poland.
The United States says Kalymon shot Jews while serving in a Nazi-sponsored Ukrainian Auxiliary Police Force. His attorney says Kalymon guarded coal from looters.
Speaking from his porch in Troy, Michigan, Kalymon said he didn’t shoot anyone during World War II.
"I live in this country 60 years and four months. I love this country because it's my country. I'm going to die here. They want to remove me, an old man. I never was arrested; pay my taxes. I don't know anyone as honest as me," he said.
Kalymon came to the United States in 1949, became a naturalized citizen in 1955 and was an engineer for Chrysler.
In 2207 a federal judge in Detroit stripped Kalymon of his citizenship.
Kalymon and others came to the attention of U.S. investigators after the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 which resulted in the opening of many World War II archives.
In May, U.S. authorities deported John Demjanjuk from Cleveland, suspected of being an accessoryin the murder of 27,900 people at the Sobibor death camp.
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