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March 5, 1998
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The war crimes trial of a Lithuanian accused of being a Nazi collaborator began in the Baltic nation’s capital of Vilnius. Aleksandras Lileikis, 91, is suspected of having handed Jews over to Nazi death squads during World War II, when he was a head of the Nazi-sponsored Lithuanian security police. Lileikis’ lawyer called for dropping the genocide charges, saying his client had not only never persecuted Jews but had rescued a Jewish woman during the war.

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