A Lithuanian court indefinitely postponed the war crimes trial of the man who headed the country’s Nazi-sponsored secret police. The court said it would appoint a medical commission to determine whether Aleksandras Lileikis is too ill to speak in his own defense. The trial will likely never be held if Lileikis, 91, is found unable to testify. Lileikis is accused of having given Jews over to Nazi death squads during the war.
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