Six Soviet citizens went on trial today in Krasnodor on charges of killing about 1,000,000 victims, in the Nazi Sobibor and Belzec death camps in occupied Poland during the war, it was reported here from Moscow. No mention of the fact that the majority of the victims were Jews was made in the Soviet press.
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