Authorities in Germany are investigating whether they can prosecute a former Nazi camp guard who has been living in the United States for 60 years, they said Monday.

Prosecutors are probing the case of Johann Breyer, who admits having been a guard at the notorious Auschwitz camp, where more than 1 million people, most of them Jews, were murdered during World War II.

Breyer, 87, says he was only a perimeter guard and did not persecute anyone, according to legal papers related to his battle to keep his American citizenship.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/09/24/world/europe/germany-nazi-guard/index.html?on.cnn=1

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