Lithuania: March Commemorates Nazi Collaborators

Via Haaretz: 

Approximately 250 Lithuanians attended a march Tuesday, commemorating nationalists who are accused of complicity in the murder of Jews during the Holocaust.

The march in Kaunas, a city 65 miles east of Vilnius, was organized on Lithuania’s independence day by the Union of Nationalist Youth of Lithuania under the banner “We Know Our Nation’s Heroes.”

The so-called heroes celebrated at the march were all involved in the Holocaust or in fighting alongside Nazi Germany, according to Efraim Zuroff, the head of the Israel branch of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, who monitored the march in Kaunas along with a team of observers affiliated with defendinghistory.com — a website which reports on extremism in Lithuania.

Organizers named at the beginning of the march Jonas Noreika, who is believed to have helped murder Jews, and Juozas Ambrazevicius-Brazaitis — the leader of a local pro-Nazi government. The remaining four names were Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas, Povilas Plechavicius, Kazys Skirpa and Antanas Baltusis-Zvejas.
 

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