Two former Nazi collaborators have been sentenced to death and two to long prison terms by the Latvian Supreme Court for taking part in mass murders of Jews in Nazi-occupied Riga, the Soviet Information Bulletin here reported today.
Haert Ozolin and Oskar Mazulan were sentenced to death by shooting. Julius Berzin and Alfred Zalaties received 15-year prison terms each. Testimony indicated that after the Nazis occupied Latvia in 1941, the four men volunteered for service with the Nazis, They took part in the killing of old people and also shot 20 victims, including women, in the Krustpils (Jreizberg) Ghetto.
They were also proved to have volunteered to take part in the total destruction of the ghetto. On one day alone, testimony indicated, 1,700 victims were murdered. The four men were convicted by a Soviet court after the war as accomplices of the Nazi occupation forces but they concealed their murder activities at that time.
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