He’s 94 and the U.S. is probably going to deport him to be prosecuted for his crimes in Germany or Poland.
Michael Karkoc was a top commander of a Nazi SS-led unit, which reportedly burned villages filled with women and children. The Associated Press found him in northeast Minneapolis.
He lied to American immigration officials to get into the U.S. and has been living in Minnesota since the end of World War II.
Via: The St. Paul Pioneer Press, Chris Polydoroff / AP
Michael Karkoc, 94, told American authorities in 1949 that he had performed no military service during World War II, concealing his work as an officer and founding member of the SS-led Ukrainian Self Defense Legion and later as an officer in the SS Galician Division, according to records obtained by the AP through a Freedom of Information Act request. The Galician Division and a Ukrainian nationalist organization he served in were both on a secret American government blacklist of organizations whose members were forbidden from entering the United States at the time.
Heorhiy Syvyi, left, was 9 when the Ukrainian SS force that Karkoc was reportedly part of stormed his village to kill everyone as revenge for the murder of a German officer.
Syvyi managed to flee with his father and hide in a shelter covered in branches. But the rest of his family was not as lucky. His mother and 4-year-old brother were killed.
Via: AP
"When we came out we saw the smoldering ashes of the burned house and our neighbors searching for the dead. My mother had my brother clasped to her chest. This is how she was found — black and burned," said Syvyi, 78, sitting on a bench outside his home."
