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Linnas, Anu, Tiina, and Epp - A Circular, Regarding the Second Naturalized American to Be Sent to the Soviet Union to Face a Pending Death Sentence
Burke, Virginia, By the authors, 1986. Printed document; 14 x 8 1/2; single sheet, text to recto only; old crease line through the middle, else minor wear; in very good or better condition. Karl Linnas (1919 - 1987) was an Estonian-American, tried in absentia by the Soviet Government and sentenced to death in 1962 for allegedly serving as commandant of a Nazi concentration camp in Tartu in the early 1940s and for personally executing civilians, including small children. In the meantime, after WWII, he had spent time in Displaced Persons camps in Germany and had immigrated to the US in 1951, becoming a citizen in 1960. In 1979 he was charged by US immigration officials with providing false statements, in order to enter the US. In 1981, he was stripped of his US citizenship for having lied about his ties to the Nazis. In 1986, a federal appeals court upheld his deportation order and in April of that year, he was imprisoned, while awaiting the result of his final appeal. In 1987, he was flown to the Soviet Union, where he would die in a prison hospital in ST. Petersburg three months later. The current circular was created by his three daughters in August of 1986, while he was in prison awating deportation. It described a conspiracy between the Justice Department and the KGB to fabricate evidence and implored people to write to their senators in Karl's support and to contribute to their father's defense fund. Very good .
USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 230 | £UK 197.25 | JP¥ 38569] Booknumber: 003871
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USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 230 | £UK 197.25 | JP¥ 38569] Booknumber: 003871
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Total: USD 250.00 [Appr.: EURO 230 | £UK 197.25 | JP¥ 38569]
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