CHICAGO

Citizenship of alleged Nazi guard revoked

A federal judge Friday revoked the U.S. citizenship of a Romanian-born former member of the Nazi SS accused of serving as a concentration camp guard.

The government accused Joseph Wittje, 84, of Bensenville of hiding his membership in an SS Death’s Head battalion that guarded Sachsenhausen, a camp near Berlin where thousands were executed or died from starvation, disease and medical experiments.

The government contended that because the Nazi Waffen SS was a movement hostile to the United States, Wittje was not lawfully admitted to this country when he was granted citizenship in August 1959.

DETROIT

Worker killed, 3 injured in construction accident

A construction platform fell Friday as four workmen were painting an overpass, killing one worker and critically injuring the other three, police said.

The men, who worked for a company contracted by the Michigan Department of Transportation, were working on the overpass of Interstate 75 in southwest Detroit.

They were attempting to lower a 20-by-30-foot platform when a cable holding it up snapped shortly after 11 a.m., police said.

“For some reason, the platform gave way. All four men fell and hit their heads,” police Sgt. John Claybourne said.

The injured men were taken to Detroit Receiving Hospital.