Nation IN BRIEF : PENNSYLVANIA : Death Camp Guard’s Citizenship Revoked

A Slovakia-born man who admitted that he was an armed guard at the Nazi-operated Buchenwald concentration camp and Auschwitz death camp during World War II has lost his naturalized U.S. citizenship, the Justice Department said. But the judge in the case left open the possibility that Philadelphian Johann Breyer, 68, a retired tool and die maker, could gain citizenship based on his mother’s birth in this country. The judge found previously that, based on Breyer’s admissions and captured Nazi documents, he was ineligible for the visa he received in 1952 and that he therefore obtained U.S. citizenship illegally.