Edited sentence: In Lithuania in particular, and Latvia and Estonia to some extent, there was an already existing foundation of anti-Semitism.One of the significant aspects of The Holocaust in the Baltics is the fact that the Germans were able to solicit executioners from the local population.Prior to the German invasion of Russia, Jews in other German occupied countries were being ghettoized and murdered, but not to the extent and with the swiftness that happened in the Baltic countries.The German Nazis were able to use these feelings in certain segments of the local population to incite them into collaboration with their anti-Jewish policies