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Defaming Jews and distorting history in Lithuania

28.08.2008 / 09:03 CET

The Baltic state is wrestling with the wrong dilemma in its efforts to bring war criminals to trial

Is Lithuania really persecuting Holocaust survivors as if they were war criminals? Not quite, but the story is still troubling. It starts with the Nazi occupation of Lithuania when the Germans, with local help, were murdering Jews (more than 200,000 Jews perished, around 95% of the pre-war population). The Nazis' main opponent was the Soviet Union, so Jews' only chance of survival was to fight alongside Soviet-backed partisan groups, who were fighting both against Hitler and to restore communist rule in Lithuania.

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