US Accuses Man of Complicity in Nazi War Crimes

U.S. authorities have arrested an 89-year-old man and accused him of being a guard at Nazi concentration camps during World War II. Johann Breyer, a retired toolmaker born in Czechoslovakia, was apprehended Tuesday in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and held in jail after an initial court appearance Wednesday. Germany is seeking to extradite Breyer to face charges that he was complicit in the 1944 killings of 158 trainloads of European Jews at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Officials say...

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