An 81-year-old man who was stripped of his U.S. citizenship in 1997 because of his World War II-era activities admitted he was part of a Nazi-allied police battalion, but denied he participated in a 1941 mass killing. Kazys Ciriunskas made the comments when he was interrogated last month by Lithuanian prosecutors, according to the Reuters news agency. Ciriunskas left the United States in May to avoid deportation.
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