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Judge revokes citizenship of Michigan man accused of being Nazi

DETROIT —- A federal judge has revoked the citizenship of an 85-year-old Michigan man after finding that he shot Jews as a member of a Nazi police unit.

U.S. District Judge Marianne O. Battani ruled Thursday that John Kalymon, of Troy, served as a member of the Nazi-operated Ukrainian Auxiliary Police during World War II in the city of Lviv.

Kalymon's unit rounded up Jews, imprisoned them in a ghetto, oversaw forced labor, killed those attempting to escape, and delivered others to killing sites for mass execution, the judge found.
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