Six Russians went on trial yesterday in Mineralnye Vody, a Caucasian resort town, on charges of collaborating with Nazi occupation forces in the wartime massacre of more than 60,000 victims, many of them Jews, it was reported here today from Moscow.
The six defendants were charged with cooperating with the Nazis in wiping out the Jewish population of the town in September 1942. They were accused of helping the Nazis to load Jews on trains which took them to a factory where they were shot. One of the Russians was head of the police in the town under the Nazis, another served as an interpreter for the occupation forces, Tass, the Soviet news agency reported.
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