A federal judge has revoked the citizenship of an 85-year-old Michigan man after finding that he shot Jews as a member of a Nazi police unit. U.S. District Judge Marianne O. Battani ruled that John Kalymon, of Troy, served as a member of the Nazi-operated Ukrainian Auxiliary Police during World War II in the city of Lviv.

Kalymon’s unit rounded up Jews, imprisoned them in a ghetto, oversaw forced labor, killed those attempting to escape, and delivered others to killing sites for mass execution, the judge found.

Kalymon entered the United States from Germany in 1949 and became a U.S. citizen in 1955. Battani ruled that he was ineligible for citizenship because his service to Nazi Germany made him ineligible to immigrate to the U.S.

She found that Kalymon “assisted in the persecution of civil populations” and lied about his service in the police unit when he applied for a visa.

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