Deported Nazi guard Jakiw Palij dies in Germany at 95

The former Nazi camp guard who was deported from his Queens home in August is finally right where he belongs — in hell.

Jakiw Palij, a former guard at the Trawniki camp in Nazi-occupied Poland, died Thursday in Germany at the age of 95, the BBC reported.

He had been living the good life in Jackson Heights for decades, even though a federal judge revoked his US citizenship in 2003 over his Nazi ties.

Palij was ordered deported in 2004, but no country would claim him.

He finally got das boot last fall when Germany agreed take him off the US’ hands, even though the Poland native had no claims to citizenship there.

Trawniki did not house an extermination camp like the infamous Auschwitz or Treblinka, but it served as a vital training ground for the Nazi’s brutal SS forces — and was also home to a forced labor camp where thousands of Jews perished, including 6,000 men, women and children executed by gun on Nov. 3, 1943.

Palij was on hand for the slaughter, and though he’s not accused of personally taking any lives, US authorities said he played an “indispensable role” in the killing of Jews.

He came to the US in 1949 and lied about his Nazi links to fraudulently obtain citizenship in 1957, according to the Department of Justice.

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