Elias Lazar is a 91-year-old Orthodox Jew who survived World War II by working in the Nazis' forced labor camps.

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To him, Hardy Lloyd, the man who rented a $370 a month efficiency in Lazar's building, was someone who always paid his rent, just never on time.

It's not known what Lloyd, 26, a professed neo-Nazi with membership in a white supremacy group, thought of his landlord. Lloyd was charged yesterday with the Tuesday night shooting death in Squirrel Hill of Lori Hann, 41.

But his tiny efficiency, at 5825 Bartlett St., was Lloyd's haven of hate in the midst of the city's largest concentration of Jews.

A member of the Creativity Movement, formerly the World Church of the Creator, where he was known as Brother Hardy, Lloyd filled his apartment with books, clothes and photos dedicated to the superiority of whites and inferiority of Jews and minorities.

A photo with a handwritten "Rahowa" -- an acronym for "Race Holy War" -- along the bottom showed three people behind a Nazi flag giving Nazi salutes. Titles from the bookshelves include "The Protocols of Zion," a forgery for the Russian secret police blaming the Jews for the country's ills, and "Goebbels: Mastermind of the Third Reich," by Holocaust denier David Irving. Several T-shirts on hangers were emblazoned with symbols of white supremacy. A stack of leaflets included racist jokes and "Historical Quotes About the Jewish Problem."

"It's mind boggling that he would give his money to an Orthodox Jew when he hates them so much," said Lazar's youngest son, Richard, 50, who flew in from Redwood City, Calif., to help his father in the aftermath of Lloyd's arrest early yesterday.

The elder Lazar, who has owned the building with his son since 1988, said Lloyd was "very polite." Both Lazars were at a loss to explain the disconnect between Lloyd's behavior and what they saw in the apartment. Neither Lazar had looked in Lloyd's apartment before Thursday, when they entered it with police.

Nor did they recall that Lloyd had been in the news before.

In April 2001, he passed out race-baiting and anti-Semitic leaflets throughout the East End. In an interview with the Post-Gazette a month after the incident, Lloyd's father said his son's actions were "inexplicable."

The older Lloyd said his son had been diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome, a neurobiological disorder that is a high-functioning form of autism. Persons with the disorder show marked deficiencies in social skills, have difficulties with transitions or changes, and prefer sameness, according to information on a University of Delaware Internet site named Online Asperger Syndrome Information and Support.

The site says individuals with the syndrome often have obsessive routines and may be preoccupied with a particular subject. Their intellects are unimpaired but socially they're stunted.

"It's important to know," the site reads, "that the person with AS perceives the world very differently."

Lloyd didn't interact with his neighbors in the 5800 block of Bartlett, a one-way street with large homes that have been subdivided into apartments. He worked briefly at the Squirrel Hill Giant Eagle and before that at a bagel store. The building closest to Lloyd's front door was the Young Israel of Pittsburgh synagogue. Through the apartment's only window, he would have seen a score of Jews on Saturdays walking to and from synagogues.

One woman who lives in Lloyd's building said while she didn't often see him, she did hear him argue frequently with women at 2 a.m. or 3 a.m. in the house's driveway.

"I didn't know what they were fighting about," said the neighbor, who did not want to be identified. "It was just really violent. It sounded like typical domestic abuse."

Once, she and a friend discovered that Lloyd had carved a Nazi swastika in the concrete walk outside his front door. The neighbor said she and her friend scraped the symbol away.

Pittsburgh police found plenty of signs of Lloyd's leanings when they first searched the apartment Thursday afternoon about noon, and then about four hours later. According to a search affidavit, detectives took an answering machine with three unanswered messages on it, a Dell computer hard drive, a box of .380-caliber Winchester shells, a .357 Magnum, 22 floppy disks, seven receipts for gun purchases and a paper bag containing white supremacy materials.

A cousin of Elias Lazar's also was in the apartment Thursday. An animal advocate, she was concerned about the two cats in the apartment, one a kitten. So she got a key from her cousin and entered the apartment with the OK of Pittsburgh police.

"The boy didn't clean the litter box for weeks," said the cousin, who asked that her name not be used. "But once I got in there and started cleaning the litter box, I thought this kid could walk in. I got scared.

"I don't know what I would have done. I hope I would have thought to say, 'I'm taking care of your cats.' "