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DavidDvorkin

(19,477 posts)
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 02:31 PM Jan 2020

Evil, lying bastards

No, not the Trump family, this time. This is about Lithuania.

Lithuania’s ruling party drafting bill exonerating nation from Holocaust crimes
https://www.jta.org/quick-reads/lithuanias-ruling-party-drafting-bill-exonerating-nation-from-holocaust-crimes

My mother's family would say otherwise, but they were murdered in the Holocaust, almost certainly by their Christian Lithuanian neighbors. Even German officers who were in Lithuania at the time were horrified by what the Lithuanians, liberated from the slender legal restraints that had existed before the German invasion, were doing to the local Jews.

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Evil, lying bastards (Original Post) DavidDvorkin Jan 2020 OP
Absolutely correct. The Lithuanians by and large were COLGATE4 Jan 2020 #1

COLGATE4

(14,732 posts)
1. Absolutely correct. The Lithuanians by and large were
Fri Jan 3, 2020, 03:55 PM
Jan 2020

savage towards their Jewish "neighbors"as soon as they were unleashed by their German occupiers.

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