SEATTLE -- The news of Peter Egner's involvement with a Nazi mobile killing unit has triggered outcries from many around the country.

Rabbi Marvin Hier, founder and dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los Angeles, said Egner should be punished to the fullest extent of the law for his reported involvement with a Nazi mobile killing unit during World War II.

"Many of the killers, during the second world war, were 19, 20, 21 years old. They were these members of the mobile killing squads," he said. "What they did full-time was murder people, seven days a week. They were rewarded by extra food portions."

Hier said no one should have sympathy for Egner despite his old age.

"That is preposterous. Here is a man who escaped the bar of justice, lived to the ripe old age of 86. Surely the worst thing we can do is reward him for being clever enough to avoid the bar of justice," he said.

Egner's fate, Hier said, should be set by the strong arm of the law.

"He should be deported," he said. "If deported to a country where he committed the crimes, he should stand trial for them. And if convicted, he should serve a life sentence and never be allowed to live freely again."