The Justice Department is asking a judge to revoke the citizenship of a former Nazi concentration camp guard living in Wisconsin. The department’s Office of Special Investigations says Josias Kumpf, 78, served as a guard at Sachsenhausen near Berlin during the early years of World War II.
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