The Simon Wiesenthal Center is asking Venezuela to help it learn the fate of 18 Nazi collaborators from the Baltic nations who immigrated to the South American country after World War II. The 14 Lithuanians, three Latvians and one Estonian mainly served in local police squads that helped the Nazis persecute Jews.
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