A man from the Philadelphia area is asking a U.S. appeals court to reinstate his U.S. citizenship. The appeal was filed after a judge ruled last year that Theodor Szehinskyj, 77, would have been barred from immigrating to the United States in 1950 if he had not hidden his service as a Nazi SS guard.
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