[The Nazi's granddaughter - how I discovered my grandfather was a war criminal. Silvia Foti]

ENJonas Noreika, also known as "General Storm", fought as a partisan and otherwise opposed both aggressors and occupiers of Lithuania - the Germans and the Soviets. He was twice imprisoned by the Germans, the second time he spent two years in the Stutthof concentration camp. Only the war's ending freed him. But he was then again imprisoned, and this time executed, by the Soviet KGB. These facts are not disputed. During the German occupation, like other locals who were left to handle the day to day administration of the country, Noreika was initially allowed to remain in his post as Chief of the Šiauliai District. His dudes required him to accept and transmit - generally "rubber stamp" - German orders. Among his other tasks, he signed orders to send Jews to ghettos. That is not disputed either. And that is where the controversy lies - what did Noreika do in his position under the Germans, and why did he do it? Was he a willing accomplice in support of the German policy to eliminate Jews? Or was he, as others, passing on German orders so that he could survive and continue to use his position to help some of the local population? To answer those questions is beyond the scope of this review. The purpose of this review is only to examine what the book itself does or does not accomplish.