I'm off to Estonia and Latvia for a hol this August, and have been reading the guide book about the Baltic States.
Unfortunately the one thing that keeps grabbing my attention is all the asides about how the Balts gladly bumped off their Jews (including my family, who lived near Vilnius in Lithuania), often with an enthusiasm and viciousness that trumped the SS. Here's a charming quote from Vytautas Sustauskas (great names, the Lithuanians), head of the anti-Semitic Lithuanian Freedom League:
Wikipedia - Vytautas Sustauskas
If Hitler wouldn't have killed the Jews, I'd now have to shine their shoes in the middle of Freedom Avenue
and an (out-of-date) report on Baltic anti-semitism in general:
Anti-Semitism Worldwide 1999/2000 - Baltic Republics
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