THE last known Nazi collaborator living in the US was today deported to Germany where he could face justice at last.

On the order of President Donald Trump, immigration agents removed 95-year-old Jakiw Palij from his home in Queens, New York, in a dawn raid this morning.

The deportation came 25 years after investigators first confronted him about his World War Two past and he confessed to lying to get into the US, claiming he spent the war as a farmer and factory worker.

Polish born Palij was tracked down after his name was spotted by chance on an old Nazi roster - and then a fellow former guard spilled the secret that he was "living somewhere in America".

It turned out he lived in a two storey red brick home in Jackson Heights and had worked as a draftsman before he retired.

When Justice Department investigators showed up at his door, Palij said: "I would never have received my visa if I told the truth. Everyone lied."

His US citizenship was revoked shortly after in 2003 and he was ordered to be deported in 2004.

But no European country would accept him, according to reports, and he has been living in limbo until Germany agreed to take him.

His continued presence at a two-story, red brick home he shared with his wife, Maria, now 86, outraged the neighbouring Jewish community.

They have staged frequent protests over the years - featuring such chants as "your neighbour is a Nazi!"

According to the Justice Department, Palij served at Trawniki training and labour in 1943, the same year 6,000 prisoners were murdered and buried in pits.

Palij has admitted serving here but denied any involvement in war crimes.

It is also alleged he served as an SS armed guard at the Treblinka Extermination Camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, which he denied.

It is considered one of the deadliest Nazi death camps in occupied Poland during World War Two.

Here at least 900,000 Jews and Roma gypsies perished in gas chambers or by brutal treatment at the hands of sadistic guards.

After Nazi Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Palij allegedly collaborated with the occupying forces and worked in concentration camps.

With the Soviet Army pushing back the Nazi occupiers, Palij fled and went underground to escape detection from allied investigators who were hot on the tale of SS guards straight after the war.

But in 1949 Palij emigrated to the United States and pretended to the immigration authorities that he did not take part in the war and worked on his father’s farm.

A statement released today by the Office of the Press Secretary said: “The United States government has prioritised the identification, prosecution and deportation of Nazi war criminals since the 1970s.

“President Trump commends his administration's comprehensive actions, especially the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), in removing this war criminal from US soil."

Palij strongly denies the claims and insists he did not take part in any atrocities.

In the past 40 years, the US government has initiated legal proceedings to expel just 137 of the estimated 10,000 suspected Nazi war criminals who immigrated to American after World War 2.

At least 67 have been deported, extradited or left voluntarily.

Some 28 died while their cases were pending.

As reported earlier this year, softly spoken Stanislaw Chrzanowski became the first person in the UK to be investigated for Nazi war crimes.

Neighbours spoke of a “gentle” figure who never spoke about the war and was regularly spotted on his mobility scooter around the streets of Telford, Shrops.