Officials in Scotland issued an arrest warrant for a suspected Nazi war criminal living there. Antonas Gecas, 85, is alleged to have killed Jews and other civilians when he was head of a special Nazi police unit in a part of Lithuania that is now in the former Soviet republic of Belarus.
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