An accused Nazi concentration camp guard is leaving the United States, according to news reports in Ohio. Jakob Miling, 79, also will give up his citizenship. U.S. prosecutors had accused Miling, an ethnic German born in what later became Yugoslavia, of working at two concentration camps during World War II, including Gross Rosen in Poland, and lying about his wartime service when he obtained U.S. citizenship.
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