BRADENTON, Fla.?A Lithuanian man accused of collaborating with the Nazis during World War II lied on immigration forms to gain entry into the United States, government lawyers said as his deportation trial opened.

The attorney representing Algimantas Dailide, 81, of St. Petersburg, argued Monday that the documents on which prosecutors base their case may be fakes and that a group Dailide admits working for wasn’t under the control of the Nazis.

From 1941 to 1944, government lawyers say, Dailide turned Jews over to occupying Nazi forces to be killed. In 1950, they said, Dailide lied on immigration forms to enter the United States, saying he was a forester and denying he served on police forces during the war.

In interviews, Dailide has said his job was to arrest communist sympathizers after the Nazis gained control of Lithuania from Russia.