Eight Russian war criminals were sentenced to death today and a ninth was sentenced to life imprisonment for their role in the execution along with a Nazi murder squad of some 200,000 Jews and other victims during the German occupation of Simperopol, Mariupol, Tagonrog, Rostov and Krasnodar, it was reported here from Krasnodar, U.S.S.R.
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