While this is true of some, not of all people who ended up working with the nazis.
And the realities of the Cold War also played a role in that decision as well - also in Japan.
It’s actually discussed in the article - he was a guard at a Trawniki, which participated in both forced labor and in the holocaust itself. From the article:
“During a single nightmarish day in November 1943, all of the more than 6,000 prisoners of the Nazi camp that Jakiw Palij had guarded were systematically butchered,” Eli Rosenbaum, head of the Justice Department’s Office of Special Investigations (OSI), said after the ruling. “By helping to prevent the escape of these prisoners, Palij played an indispensable role in ensuring that they met their tragic fate at the hands of the Nazis.”
