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Gestapo Leader Responsible for Massacres of Jews in Lithuania Named by Underground

June 29, 1944
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Swedish newspapers today quoted the latest issue of the Lithuanian underground publication, Laisves Kovotojas, reporting that the person responsible for the two-day massacre of Jews in the Kaunas ghetto which started March 27, is a Lithuanian-German leader of the Gestapo named Helke. He is also responsible for the torture of political prisoners in the Kaunas central prison, the report said.

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