Germany should revoke German citizenship granted to foreigners who served in the Waffen-SS, a Jewish group said. The pensions, granted by Hitler in 1943, allow these people to escape extradition on war crimes charges, the Simon Wiesenthal Center said in a letter this week to German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder.
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