Original sentence: A first  Estonian war crimes trial was brought sixteen years after the end of World War II, in 1961, by the local Soviet authorities against Estonian collaborators who had participated in the execution of the Holocaust in Estonia during the Nazi German occupation (1941-1944).Ain-Ervin Mere, commander of the Estonian Security Police (Group B of the Sicherheitspolizei) under the Estonian Self-Administration, was tried in absentia.The public  show trial by the Supreme Court of the Estonian SSR was held in the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn and attended by a mass audience
Edited sentence: A first  Holocaust trial in Soviet Estonia was brought sixteen years after the end of World War II, in 1961, by the Soviet authorities against local collaborators who had participated in the execution of the Holocaust in Estonia during the Nazi German occupation (1941-1944).Ain-Ervin Mere, commander of the Estonian Security Police (Group B of the Sicherheitspolizei) under the Nazi Germany's puppet government for Estonia, was tried in absentia.The public show trial by the Supreme Court of the Estonian SSR was held in the Estonia Theatre in Tallinn and attended by a mass audience