Alleged Nazi guard returned to Austria

An elderly man accused of being a guard at Nazi concentration camps during the Second World War has returned to Austria, after being deported from the United States.

Seventy-eight-year-old Ferdinand Hammer, who was born in Yugoslavia, was expelled by the American authorities because they said he had lied about his Nazi past.

Mr Hammer has admited being in an SS combat unit during the war, but says he was never a camp guard.

He lived in Austria before emigrating to the United States in 1955.

The Austrian justice ministry said it did not intend to charge him with any offence because it had no evidence against him.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service