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Neighbor in retirement home was SS guard

A survivor from Auschwitz has discovered his neighbour in a retirement home in Arizona was an SS guard in another Nazi concentration camp. Nathan Gasch was also a prisoner at the Sachsenhausen camp, where fellow resident Martin Hartmann served as a member of the SS Death's Head Guard Battalion. Mr Hartmann has been stripped of his US citizenship and exiled back to Germany, following a two-year investigation by the Department of Justice's Office of Special Investigations.
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