Suspected Nazi War Criminal Dies at 78

A suspected Nazi war criminal collapsed and died a week after a newspaper revealed he had been living quietly in Britain on a state pension. Alexander Schweidler, 78, was taken to the hospital in Milton Keynes, where he died of natural causes, police said. The Guardian reported that Slovakian-born Schweidler worked as an SS guard at Austria’s Mauthausen concentration camp, where 80,000 people were killed. The newspaper said Schweidler, who had denied any involvement in the killings, lived on a state pension in a home run by the local government. He became a British citizen and later moved to the U.S., from which he was deported in 1994.