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A former Nazi prison guard who was deported by Donald Trump has died in Germany.

Jakiw Palij, 95, was a former Nazi collaborator who served in the SS as a labour camp guard in the Second World War.

He had a 14-year deportation dispute in the US earlier last year.

But today the US ambassador to Germany confirmed the pensioner, an ethnic Ukrainian, died in Germany, after a lengthy battle with an illness.

Richard Grenell tweeted: "Former Nazi prison guard Jakiw Palij has died in Germany.

"I am so thankful to realDonaldTrump for making the case a priority.

"Removing the former Nazi prison guard from the US was something multiple Presidents just talked about - but President Trump made it happen."

Mr Palij died at a retirement home in Düsseldorf, according to reports tonight.

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Donald Trump pressed strong for Mr Palij's deportation.

The US President is yet to comment on the news of the death.

Mr Palij worked at the Trawniki Labour Camp in Poland, where around 6,000 Jewish prisoners were shot to death - one of the biggest single massacres of the Holocaust.

He arrived in the US in 1949 - six years after the horrific killings - lying and saying he had worked on a farm during the war.

Palij became a US citizen in 1957 and lived in New York City for most of his life, the White House said.

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In 2001, Palij told Department of Justice officials that he had trained at the Nazi SS Training Camp in Trawniki, in German-occupied Poland, in 1943, the White House said.

A federal judge revoked his US citizenship in 2003 and he was ordered to be deported in 2004.

But no European country would accept him, CNN and New York magazine reported.

Between 1945 and 2005, West German courts convicted 6,656 Nazi criminals out of more than 36,000 investigations into more than 170,000 suspects, a study showed in 2008.