Transcript: COURT REVOKES U.S. CITIZENSHIP OF FORMER NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARD

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WASHINGTON, DC - A federal judge in Philadelphia has revoked the U.S. citizenship of retired machinist, Theodor Szehinskyj 76, of Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania, for his activity as a Nazi concentration camp guard during World War II.

In a decision issued yesterday, Judge Stewart Dalzell ruled that Szehinskyj's World War II service in the SS Death's Head Guard Battalions as an armed guard of civilian prisoners at the Gross-Rosen, Sachsenhausen and Warsaw Concentration Camps, constituted assistance in persecution.

The court ruled that Szehinskyj's Nazi service constituted "participation in the Third Reich's closed culture of murder."

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