Five Soviet men were sentenced yesterday to death in Russia for taking part in the mass murder of Jews and others during World War If in collaboration with the Nazis. A sixth defendant was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
The men were charged with helping to kill 14,000 Jews, scientists, women, children, and old persons in Russia, in 1942. The bodies were found in a mass grave in the Caucasus after the war.
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