Lithuania’s poor record of prosecuting suspected Nazi war criminals proves that the country has turned into a haven for Nazi collaborators, Israel’s ambassador to Lithuania said in a speech this week. Oded Ben Hur also said that Lithuania, as well as Latvia and Estonia, would find it difficult to integrate into the new Europe if they fail to cope with their wartime past and publicly acknowledge their roles in the Holocaust.
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