From the age of fifteen, Stankeras took a great interest in the history of World War II, German National Socialism, Italian Fascism, and the Lithuanian police.
[2] In 2000, Stankeras defended his Ph.D. dissertation Lithuanian Police during the Nazi Occupation in 1941–1944 (Organizational Structure and Personnel) at Vytautas Magnus University.
On 8 November 2010, magazine Veidas published his article about the Nuremberg trials, in which the following sentence was printed: It is important as well that the Nuremberg process provided a legal basis for the legend of about 6 million supposedly murdered Jews even though in fact the court did not have a single document signed by Hitler ordering to exterminate Jews (this document, if it exists, has not been found, even though a million dollar reward has been promised).
Leonidas Donskis published a blog post[4] while seven ambassadors (Great Britain, Estonia, Netherlands, Norway, France, Finland and Sweden) sent a letter to the Minister of Interior Raimundas Palaitis.
[2] In a subsequent interview Stankeras explained that he intended only to question the six-million figure,[2] while editor-in-chief of Veidas admitted that the location of the word supposedly was a copy-editing error.