90-year-old Lajos Polgar has lived in Melbourne for more than 50 years and is accused of committing atrocities while he was a member of the Arrow Cross, the Nazis’ Hungarian allies.
The Jerusalem office of the Los Angeles-based Simon Wiesenthal Centre has asked Hungary to investigate Polgar's past and his alleged wartime activities.
“I was too young to have been involved. I am not scared. I am 100 per cent clear,” Polgar told AAP from his home today
Although he admits to be a youth leader with the Arrow Cross Party, he alleges that he had “recanted” after the war.
Mr Polgar denies the organization was anti-Semitic.
"I am not a well man. I have heart trouble, stomach trouble, prostate trouble. I have a short life (left) and I want peace and quiet."
Copies of court records from the 1940s included in the Wiesenthal Centre's request allegedly show that Polgar made numerous decisions affecting Hungarian Jews. He may have possibly participated in killings and persecutions.
The allegations against Mr Polgar were raised in August this year by a Hungarian language newspaper in Melbourne, Magyar Elet, which said Mr Polgar joined the Nazis at age 18 and remained a member for six years.
The newspaper also said Mr Polgar had been involved in the Arrow Cross Party which ruled German-occupied Hungary from October 1944 to January 1945.
During its short rule, 80,000 Jews were deported from Hungary to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps.
After the war, Hungarian courts tried senior members of the group, including Arrow Cross leader Ferenc Szalasi
Mr Polgar said he might take action against the Hungarian newspaper in Melbourne, Magyar Elet.