The U.S. government is asking a U.S. judge to revoke the citizenship of an alleged Nazi collaborator. The government alleged Wednesday that Joseph Wittje, who lives in Illinois, served as a guard with the SS Death’s Head Guard battalion at Sachsenhausen during the war — and that he lied about his service when he applied for U.S. citizenship in 1959.
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