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February 14, 2018
Lithuania, Poland, and Eastern Europe’s Confrontation with the Holocaust
Collaboration in the slaughter of the Jews on the one hand, “Jewish crimes” against Lithuanians on the other.
In the late 1990s, and again a decade later, attempts to prosecute a few Lithuanian citizens for their involvement in the slaughter of Jews during World War II were countered by efforts to prosecute a Nazi hunter and then two Holocaust survivors for committing “crimes” against Lithuanians. At the time, the historian Antony Polonsky wrote an essay on these and related controversies in Lithuania, comparing them with similar controversies in Poland and Germany; the essay was published in Poland in 2010 but has now been made available online for the first time in the wake of the recent Polish law forbidding false statements about the Polish role in the Holocaust:
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Lithuania, Poland, and Eastern Europe’s Confrontation with the Holocaust
Collaboration in the slaughter of the Jews on the one hand, “Jewish crimes” against Lithuanians on the other.
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