The war crimes trial in Lithuania of a former U.S. citizen was postponed until the defendant is well enough to appear in court. The postponement was the fifth this year. Aleksandras Lileikis, 91, is suspected of having handed over scores of Jews to Nazi death squads when he headed the Vilnius branch of the Lithuanian security police during the war.
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