Two Estonian members of the Nazi SS pleaded guilty before a Soviet tribunal in Tallinn today to charges of complicity in the slaughter of 125,000 persons during the Nazi occupation of Estonia, most of them Jews. The two men were identified a as Ralf Gerrets and Jan Vijk. They described to the court the machine-gunning of Jewish men, women and children.
The Soviet authorities had made special arrangements to permit foreign correspondents to cover the trial. They coupled this with sharp attacks on the British Government for its alleged refusal to permit the extradition of a third Estonian SS official who participated in the massacres.
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