of course, all of the animals involved in the slaughter of the Jews should have been shot. that never happened. had it happened, lithuania would have been about as empty as the ghettoes were after the war. bloody land. read some of the german eyewitness accounts of the barbarous lithuanian slaughter of the Jews.

Does that include the 140,000 Jews that were members of the SS? If you don't know what I'm talking about, you need to do some homework.

"Does that include the 140,000 Jews that were members of the SS"? Are kidding me? There was no such thing as a "Jew in the SS". It is an oxymoron. I know the book you are referring to. What you are referring to is 1st order and 2nd order mischlinge (1/2 and 1/4 Jews) that served in the regular army, the Wehrmacht, mostly as cannon fodder sitting ducks on the eastern front. Apart from that there were one or two higher ranking military officials, like Erhard Milch of the Luftwaffe, who were apparently of partial Jewish origin, and to whom Hitler conferred a fake "German blood certificate" as they were too useful to get rid of. But Jews in the SS? I think you need to do your homework. What's next? 140,000 Jews in al Qaeda??

are investigating a jewish hero of the holocaust. he should be honored in lithuania; instead he is scorned. jew hatred lives on in that sad country.

Why can't they investigate a suspicion that he killed innocent Lithuanian civilians? The article doesn't elaborate on what the suspicion exactly is, and we can't draw conclusions about this particular case without knowing anything, purely based on our sympathies for jewish partisans and distaste for lithuanian collaborators with the nazi's. I don't see any harm in any investigation, an investigation is an attempt to learn facts. There can be 3 possible outcomes: the investigation will have no conclusive evidence, the investigation will clear him of charges, or it will find him guilty. In the former case, we can check if it was conducted in an objective way, if the facts weren't manipulated, if the circumstances of the event weren't justifying, etc. and make our position accordingly. After all we are all for justice in every single case, aren't we? If for example a woman kills her husband, we study the case, it's not like all the women automatically conclude she is innocent, based on their belief that lots of men has done horrible things to women.

I totally agree with Eitan. Besides, there were a lot of nations included in killing people during WW II. I'm saying ''people'' because not only were Jews being killed, but also the people who did not want to support nazis, gipsies, etc. At the same time people from all these nations were also a part of those who killed. In other words, don't you dare tell that only Lithuanians were killing Jews. And, as I am from Lithuania, I can honestly tell that it's not like all people here hate Jews nowadays. What I can say from my personal experience is that the Jewish community is very incommunicative and close and they always act as if veryone around them owes them something or should be guilty about something. But the truth is that not only Jews suffered from nazis. I had nothing against Jews before I got to know these people personally, I even have a few good friends in Israel, but on the whole they are very unfriendly towards others so I guess this is why people start thinking those old stories about greedy Jews are real. Anyway, I wish one day we all lived in peace. God help us.