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  • Lithuanian hoops team's Nazi 'prize': ten Jews to kill

    03/04/2004 11:52:39 AM PST · by yonif · 19 replies · 803+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | Mar. 2, 2004 | MIKE LEBOWITZ
    In 1941, a Lithuanian basketball team was awarded a dubious prize for its victory over a team comprised of members from the occupying German military – each player was given the opportunity to shoot about 10 Jews. Next week, the names of two suspected members of that Lithuanian team are expected be presented to a special prosecutor in Vilnius. These events coincidentally come at a time when Israeli basketball teams travel to the Baltic nation in matches that, in the past, have been marred by expressions of anti-Semitism. "It is so horrifying that the prize for winning a basketball game...