A U.S. appeals court upheld a ruling revoking the citizenship of a man for his service in Nazi camps during World War II. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit affirmed the ruling against John Hansl. During the war, Hansl, 81, served as an armed guard at Sachsenhausen and Natzweiler, where thousands of prisoners died.
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