Algimantas Dailidė

Algimantas Mykolas Dailidė (12 March 1921 – 2015) 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.[1][2] He was a real estate agent until he retired to Gulfport, Florida. His citizenship was revoked in 1997,[3] and he fled to Germany in 2004.[1]

Algimantas Dailidė
Born(1921-03-12)12 March 1921
Kaunas, Lithuania
Died2015(2015-00-00) (aged 93–94)
Buried
Spring Grove Cemetery in Medina, Ohio, U.S.
Service/branchLithuanian Security Police
Battles/warsWorld War II

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.[4] 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.[5] Dailidė received a 5-year prison sentence, but it was not enforced "because he is very old and does not pose danger to society".[6][7] In 2008, Haaretz reported that he lived in Kirchberg, Germany.[1] However, online databases verify that Dailidė died in 2015, and was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Medina, Ohio, United States,[8] yet he was included in the list of Nazi war criminals facing possible prosecution in 2019.[2]

References
  1. "Nazi Collaborator Fled Arrest, Living Peacefully in Germany". Haaretz. 31 August 2008.
  2. Zuroff, Dr. Efraim (December 2018). "Worldwide Investigation and Prosecution of Nazi War Criminals: An Annual Status Report (April 1, 2017– March 31, 2018)" (PDF). operationlastchance.org. Simon Wiesenthal Center – Israel Office: Snider Social Action Institute. p. 37. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  3. "Reading Eagle - Google News Archive Search". news.google.com.
  4. "United States of America, Plaintiff-appellee, v. Algimantas Dailide, defendant-appellant, 227 F.3d 385 (6th Cir. 2000)". justia.com. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  5. "Simon Wiesenthal Center 2013 Annual Report on the Status of Nazi War Criminals" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-09-03.
  6. Lithuania: 85-year-old Nazi evades prison ynet, 27 March 2006
  7. "Wiesenthal Center Protests Lithuanian Court's Refusal to Punish Ex-Policeman It Convicted for Holocaust Crimes". www.wiesenthal.com. Retrieved 2022-11-28.
  8. "Algimantas M Dailide". BillionGraves.
    "Algimantas M Dailide". People Legacy.
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