A U.S. judge revoked the citizenship of a man accused of lying about his Nazi past when he applied to enter the United States after World War II. Michael Negele, 79, who allegedly belonged to the Nazi SS, said he told immigration officials when he applied to immigrate in 1950 that he served in the Romanian and German armies during the war.
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