Algimantas_Dailidė

Algimantas Dailidė

Algimantas Dailidė

Lithuanian Nazi collaborator


Algimantas Mykolas Dailidė (12 March 1921 – 2015) was an official of the Nazi-sponsored Lithuanian Security Police (Saugumas) during World War II. After the war, Dailidė sought refuge in the United States, saying he had been a "forester." While in the United States, Dailidė lived in both Florida and Cleveland, Ohio.[1][2] He was a real estate agent until he retired to Gulfport, Florida. His citizenship was revoked in 1997,[3] and he fled to Germany in 2004.[1]

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Dailidė was born in Kaunas in 1921. He joined the Saugumas in 1941 until he fled Lithuania to Germany as a refugee in 1944. He then went to the United States in 1950 as a non-quota immigrant under a DPA visa.[4] In 2006, a Lithuanian court convicted him of having arrested twelve Jews, including women and children, and two Poles who tried to flee from the Vilna Ghetto, and were subsequently executed.[5] Dailidė received a 5-year prison sentence, but it was not enforced "because he is very old and does not pose danger to society".[6][7] In 2008, Haaretz reported that he lived in Kirchberg, Germany.[1] However, online databases verify that Dailidė died in 2015, and was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Medina, Ohio, United States,[8] yet he was included in the list of Nazi war criminals facing possible prosecution in 2019.[2]


References

  1. "Nazi Collaborator Fled Arrest, Living Peacefully in Germany". Haaretz. 31 August 2008.
  2. Zuroff, Dr. Efraim (December 2018). "Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals: An Annual Status Report (April 1, 2017– March 31, 2018)" (PDF). operationlastchance.org. Simon Wiesenthal Center – Israel Office: Snider Social Action Institute. p. 37. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  3. "Algimantas M Dailide". BillionGraves.
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