The German state of Bavaria stripped an 86-year-old former SS officer of his German citizenship, opening the way for him to be deported to the Czech Republic. Czech officials sentenced Anton Malloth in absentia to death in 1948 for killing prisoners at the Theresienstadt Ghetto. The Czech Republic has not yet made a formal extradition request.
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