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Transcript: COURT REVOKES U.S. CITIZENSHIP OF FORMER NAZI CONCENTRATION CAMP GUARD
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- Regulatory Intelligence Data
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- July 25, 2000
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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."
"This ...