SHARON, Jan. 15 (UPI) -- The U.S. Supreme Court says it will not hear the appeal of a Pennsylvania man whose citizenship was revoked because he was a Nazi guard.
The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review said the Supreme Court's ruling this week came years after U.S. District Judge David S. Cercone revoked the U.S. citizenship of 84-year-old Anton Geiser of Mercer County, Pa.
While Geiser was not convicted of any crime in relation to his Nazi service during World War II, the Supreme Court's ruling opens the door for his deportation from the United States.
The deportation process could be problematic though as Geiser was born in Yugoslavia, a country that no longer exists.
Geiser came to the United States in 1956, more than a decade after he was drafted into the German military and served as a guard for Germany's Sachsenhausen and Arolsen sub-concentration camps.
The Tribune-Review said a total of 107 U.S. residents have either been deported or denaturalized like Geiser since the Justice Department's Office of Special Investigations began searching for former Nazis in 1979.
