Although
numerous Baltic Nazi war criminals were brought to trial
by the Soviet authorities following the reoccupation of the
Baltics in 1944, many Lithuanian, Latvian, and Estonian Holocaust
perpetrators remained unprosecuted when these countries regained
their independence in 1991. Some were still living in the
Baltics, while many others had escaped towards the end of
World War II to Germany or Sweden from whence most subsequently
emigrated overseas to the United States, Canada, Australia,
and Great Britain or other destinations. In some of these
countries of refuge – primarily in the United States – successful
efforts were already underway to identify and take legal
action against these Holocaust perpetrators, a policy which
ultimately led to the return of some of these war criminals
to their native land. Thus when Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia
once again became independent, there were quite a few cases
of Baltic Nazi war criminals which could and should have
been dealt with the local authorities. What has been achieved
in this regard during the past more than eleven years of
Baltic independence? more...
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