A Nazi war crimes suspect from Philadelphia has died a day before a judge approved his extradition to Germany, his lawyer says.
Johann Breyer, 89, died on Tuesday night at a Philadelphia hospital, his lawyer told the Associated Press news agency.
A judge, apparently unaware of the report, issued an order on Wednesday approving a request for Breyer to be extradited to Germany.
The US government had yet to approve the order.
Breyer was accused of taking part in the killing of hundreds of thousands of Jewish men, women and children during his time as an Auschwitz death camp guard.
In a case that has been building for years, authorities charged him in June with 158 counts of aiding and abetting the deaths of 216,000 Jews.
His lawyer said at a hearing last month that Breyer, who walked with a cane, had mild dementia and heart issues.
Breyer - who immigrated to the US in 1952 - acknowledged in 2012 that he was an SS guard at Auschwitz in occupied Poland during World War II.
But he said he was stationed outside the death camp part and had nothing to do with the slaughter.
He said he was forced to work there as a teenager.
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