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Holocaust victims are sacrosanct. Nazi murderers are monsters. Such basic truths are obvious to all civilized people, but not so in Lithuania.
Since Lithuania achieved independence in 1990, they have rewritten history. The retreat of the Soviets in the face of the Nazi invasion in 1941 has been reframed as a glorious “Lithuanian Uprising”. The murder of 96% of Lithuanian Jews continues to be a mystery to them. Lithuania simply is unable to figure out just how those Jews were “lost”. Lithuania is certain that their enemy, the Soviets, murdered Jews, and admits their staunch Nazi allies did have some responsibility. However, Lithuania has absolute certainty that it was definit