Deportation of Karl Linnas

As one who survived the infernos of Auschwitz, Birkenau and Buchenwald, I am at a loss as to why The Times finds it necessary to editorialize about a former chieftain, Karl Linnas, of the concentration camp in Tartu, Estonia, in the years 1941-42, when Nazism ruled that country and Karl Linnas was fully and voluntarily collaborating with them.

By no means was Karl Linnas an ordinary concentration camp guard. He was the chief of the entire concentration camp system in Tartu and that is, by the way, not an allegation. There are witnesses right here in our own land who testified against Linnas and can confirm as to who Karl Linnas was in those days and what crimes he perpetrated against innocent men, women and children in Estonia.

MEL MERMELSTEIN

Huntington Beach