Lithuanian prosecutors said a former U.S. citizen could face trial in the Baltic state within the next month for Nazi-era war crimes. Kazys Gimzhauskas, 90, is accused of handing over residents of Vilnius’ Jewish ghetto to Nazi murder squads when he worked in the region’s security police during Germany’s wartime occupation of Lithuania.
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