Algirdas Klimaitis , lit. Algirdas Klimaitis ( 1910 , Kaunas , Lithuania [1] - August 29, 1988 , Hamburg , Germany ) - Lithuanian journalist , activist of the nationalist underground.
| Algirdas Klimaitis | |
|---|---|
| Algirdas Klimaitis | |
| Date of Birth | |
| Place of Birth | Kaunas , Lithuania |
| Date of death | August 29 1988 (65 years old) |
| Place of death | Hamburg , Germany |
| Citizenship |  Lithuania |
| Occupation | |
Historians Christopher Dickman and Saulius Suzhedelis write that information about Klimaitis itself is extremely scarce [2] .
After the German attack on the USSR, Lithuanian nationalists proclaimed the Provisional Government of Lithuania , headed by J. Ambrazevičius .
Klimaitis created a paramilitary group (about 600 people), which took part in the battles against Soviet troops for Kaunas . Already on June 23, 1941 , Kaunas was in the hands of the rebels [3] . Its formation, however, was not subject to the Provisional Government [4] . On June 25-26, 1941, the Klimaitis unit began pogroms against the Jews . By June 28, 1941 , according to SS brigadeführer Franz Walter Stalecker , 3,800 Jews in Kaunas were killed at the hands of Klimaitis subordinates, and later another 1,200 in other cities [3] .
After the war, Klimaitis lived in exile. His whereabouts were unknown for a long time; in the 1980s he was discovered in Hamburg ( Germany ). The local prosecutor's office began preparing charges against Klimaitis, he died in 1988 [5] [6] .
Notes
- ↑ Iš naujausios Lietuvos istorijos By D. Kuodytė, Lietuvos Politinių kalinių ir tremtinių sąjunga
- ↑ Dieckmann & Sužiedėlis, 2006 , p. 129.
- ↑ 1 2 Gitelman, 1997 , p. 97.
- ↑ Arūnas Bubnys. Lithuanian Security Police and the Holocaust (1941-1944) (lit.)
- ↑ Gitelman, 1997 , p. 102.
- ↑ (lit.) Vestuvių generolai ir Lietuvos saugumas
Literature
- Zvi Gitelman Bitter Legacy: Confronting the Holocaust in the USSR. - Indiana University Press , 1997 .-- 332 p. - ISBN 9780253333599 .
- Christoph Dieckmann, Saulius Sužiedėlis. Persecution and mass murder of Lithuanian Jews during summer and fall of 1941: sources and analysis. - Margi Raštai, 2006. - T. 3. - 279 p. - (Totalitarinių režimų nusikaltimai Lietuvoje). - ISBN 9789986093060 .