Hungary requested that Australia extradite a man wanted for the World War II-era murder of a Jewish teenager. Charles Zentai, 83, was a soldier in the Hungarian army in November 1944, when he is alleged to have arrested Peter Balozs, 18, for not wearing the mandatory yellow Star of David, and then beaten Balozs to death in a Budapest army barracks.
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