BELLEVUE, Wash. -- Federal investigators want to deport an 86-year-old local man who they say was a member of a Nazi mobile killing unit during World War II, and some locals say it’s only right.

Peter Egner, a native of Yugoslavia, served as a guard and interpreter with the Nazi-controlled Security Police and Security Service in Belgrade, Serbia - then Yugoslavia - from April 1941 to September 1943, said a civil complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Seattle on Tuesday.

Egner did not divulge that information after he immigrated to the U.S. in 1960 and applied for citizenship, the complaint said. Instead, it said, he falsely claimed that he served in the German army as a rank-and-file infantry sergeant, and he was granted U.S. citizenship in 1966.

Allegations of Egner's involvement with the Nazis have brought back chilling memories for some locals.

Nazi death squads in Yugoslavia filmed their crimes of genocide. Some 17,000 innocent people were lined up to die. They were shot, hanged or gassed.

"The Jews, the Serbs, the Romes, gypsies -- they were all executed in that place. And my father was one of them," said Sreten Nesic.

Nesic was an infant when the SS hauled his father to a concentration camp in Belgrade. When he heard about an accused Nazi living in Bellevue, haunting images of his father came rushing back.

"I would ask him (Egner), 'are you from Omolica? Do you remember Nesic Golub? Have you ever heard that name? Does anything mean to you, that name? Because it's him, my father. And my mother died because of that,'" he said.

Holocaust survivor Henry Friedman says if Egner really did falsify information about his past when he immigrated to the U.S., that's more than enough reason to deport him.

"Why let him be? He has more freedom than all these young people that he killed or is responsible for killing," he said.

Nesic says Egner shouldn't leave the country until his involvement is exposed and Egner isn't able to sleep at night because he is haunted by the victims.

"I don't want to see him hang on a post lamp in Bellevue. I'm not interested in that.

"When you are taking someone to an execution, we are people. Somebody is going there quiet, somebody is begging for their life. We are not all the same. I wish (for) him to get that flashing in front of his eyes," he said.

Egner's attorney was not available for comment.

Egner is reportedly no longer living at his Bellevue home. He is said to have moved to be with other members of his family.