A U.S. appeals court upheld an earlier decision to deport a Chicago-area man for his role in helping to execute more than 11,000 people in Lithuania and Belarus during World War II. Juozas Naujalis served in a Lithuanian-based battalion that aided the Nazis in a series of killing missions in October 1941.
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