A U.S. court revoked the citizenship of a Wisconsin man who was a wartime concentration camp guard in Poland. Josias Kumpf, 80, admitted that he stood by a pit inTrawniki, Poland, containing dead and wounded Jewish civilians and was ordered to shoot anyone who tried to escape.
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