An 81-year-old man deported from the United States for his World War II-era activities told prosecutors in his native Lithuania this week that he had not killed any Jews during the war. Kazys Ciurinskas was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1997 for concealing his role in a Nazisponsored unit responsible for the mass killings of Jews when he applied in 1949 for a visa to enter the United States. He returned to Lithuania last month.
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