March 12, 1921 - Algimantas Dailidė
His case represents a particular pattern of postwar evasion — decades lived under a false professional identity, in a country that had no knowledge of his wartime role. Dailidė served in the Lithuanian Security Police during the German occupation, a force implicated in the persecution and killing of Jews, and was ultimately convicted in 2006 for actions tied to the Vilna Ghetto. The conviction came when he was in his eighties, illustrating how long the legal reckoning for wartime collaboration could be deferred.
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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. He was a real estate agent until he retired to Gulfport, Florida. His citizenship was revoked in 1997, and he fled to Germany in 2004.
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. 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.
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