Two Lithuanians who joined the Nazis soon after the occupation of Lithuania, are on trial in the district court of Wroclaw, Poland, for war crimes, it was reported here today from Warsaw.
Jan Szliacztowicz and Michael Glowacki, the defendants, had been living in Poland under assumed names until their identities were learned. They are charged with the murder of hundreds of Jews. Poles and Russians between 1941 and 1944.
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