Algimantas Dailidė
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Algimantas Mykolas Dailidė (born March 12, 1921 in Kaunas
Kaunas
Kaunas is the second-largest city in Lithuania and has historically been a leading centre of Lithuanian economic, academic, and cultural life. Kaunas was the biggest city and the center of a powiat in Trakai Voivodeship of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania since 1413. During Russian Empire occupation...

) is a former Lithuanian Security Police
Lithuanian Security Police
The Lithuanian Security Police, also referred to as Saugumas , was a Lithuanian Nazi collaborationist police force that operated from 1941 to 1944. It had a staff of approximately 400 people, 250 of them in Kaunas and around another 130 in Vilnius....

 (Saugumas) official. After the war, Dailidė sought refuge in the United States
United States
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, saying he had been a "forester
Forester
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." While in the United States, Dailidė was a real estate agent until he retired to Gulfport, Florida
Gulfport, Florida
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. His citizenship was revoked in 1997 and he was deported in 2004.

A Lithuania
Lithuania
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n court convicted him for capturing Poles
Poles
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 and Jews trying to escape from the Vilna Ghetto
Vilna Ghetto
The Vilna Ghetto or Vilnius Ghetto was a Jewish ghetto established by Nazi Germany in the city of Vilnius in the occupied Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic , during the Holocaust in World War II...

, who were then summarily executed by the Nazis; however he was not sentenced to prison "because he is very old and does not pose danger to society."
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