A U.S. court revoked the citizenship of a man who served as a Nazi concentration camp guard. The U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh took the action last Friday regarding Anton Geiser, of Sharon, Pa. A guard at Sachsenhausen and other camps during World War II, Geiser, 81, immigrated to the United States from Austria in 1956 and became a citizen in 1962.
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