PERSECUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OF CRIMINALS OF WORLD WAR II: THE CASE OF THE LITHUANIAN DIASPORA
PERSECUTION IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OF CRIMINALS OF WORLD WAR II: THE CASE OF THE LITHUANIAN DIASPORA

Author(s): Justas Stončius
Subject(s): Jewish studies, History of Law, Criminal Law, Special Historiographies:, WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989), History of the Holocaust, History of Antisemitism, Court case
Published by: Kauno IX forto muziejus
Keywords: war criminals; persecution; denaturalisation; Lithuanian Americans; diaspora response; media; Office of Special Investigations (OSI);
Summary/Abstract: In the early 1970s, as the topic of crimes of Nazis and collaborators against humanity grew increasingly popular in the United States of America, concerns arose that many of those responsible were still at large. This article analyses cases in which Lithuanians in the USA were suspected of such crimes and also examines the attitudes prevailing during the Cold War among the main Lithuanian exile organisations regarding the persecution of suspects.

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