Bail set as elderly former Nazi guard falls ill in Pennsylvania

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Bail set as elderly former Nazi guard falls ill in Pennsylvania

(Reuters) - A former Nazi concentration camp guard awaiting extradition to Germany was granted bail on Monday, set at $100,000, after his serious medical condition worsened while in jail, according to court documents. The decision comes days before a federal judge was to decide whether Johann Breyer, 89, would be extradited to Germany. Lawyers for Breyer, who served during World War Two as an armed guard at Buchenwald and Auschwitz and emigrated to Philadelphia in 1952, had sought bail since his arrest in June, saying Breyer should not be held in a federal jail.

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