Linnas Back in Estonia, Told He Can Appeal
Karl Linnas, convicted in the Soviet Union of Nazi war crimes, was returned to his native Estonia under KGB escort today and was told that he can appeal for mercy.
Soviet officials took charge of the 67-year-old Linnas, a resident of the United States for more than half his life, when he arrived in Prague from New York and then flew him to Tallinn, capital of Estonia.
Gennady Gerasimov, chief of the Foreign Ministry’s Information Directorate, said Linnas can appeal for mercy to the Estonian Supreme Court, which sentenced him to death in 1962 for taking part in mass murders of thousands of men, women and children as commander of a Nazi death camp.
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