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Algimantas Dailidė

Algimantas Dailidė
Born(1921-03-12)12 March 1921
Kaunas, Lithuania
Died2015(2015-00-00) (aged 93–94)
Buried
Spring Grove Cemetery in Medina, Ohio, U.S.
Service / branchLithuanian Security Police
Battles / warsWorld War II

Algimantas Mykolas Dailidė (12 March 1921 – 2015) was a Lithuanian Nazi collaborator who 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 His citizenship was revoked in 1997,[3] and he fled to Germany in 2004.[1]

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][9] yet he was included in the list of Nazi war criminals facing possible prosecution in 2019.[2]

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