| Algimantas Dailidė | |
| Birth Date: | 12 March 1921 |
| Birth Place: | Kaunas, Lithuania |
| Placeofburial: | Spring Grove Cemetery in Medina, Ohio, U.S. |
| Branch: | Lithuanian Security Police |
| Battles: | World War II |
Algimantas Mykolas Dailidė (12 March 1921 – 2015) was a Lithuanian Nazi collaborator who 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] He was a real estate agent until he retired to Gulfport, Florida. His citizenship was revoked in 1997,[2] and he fled to Germany in 2004.[3]
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.[3] However, online databases verify that Dailidė died in 2015, and was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery in Medina, Ohio, United States,[8] [9] yet he was included in the list of Nazi war criminals facing possible prosecution in 2019.[1]