The American citizenship of a former Nazi concentration camp guard was revoked. Yugoslav-born Josias Kumpf, 80, had testified in a federal district court that in 1943 he stood guard at a pit containing dead and wounded Jewish civilians, with orders to kill anyone who tried to escape.
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