Prosecutors in Lithuania said they would name 76 Lithuanians unfairly cleared of war crimes as Nazi collaborators because new evidence regarding their World War II activities had come to light. Soon after Lithuania declared independence from the Soviet Union in 1990, it passed a law rehabilitating people who were convicted by Soviet courts, most of them for resisting Moscow’s rule. But Nazi hunters said the law also sheltered war criminals in Lithuania.
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