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"...the SS advance detachment organised the Lithuanian irregulars. Einsatzgruppe A leader Stahlecker explained in a follow-up report that "it was not easy at first to set any large-scale anti-jewish pogrom in motion". But the SS found early collaborators in Algirdas Klimaitis, a Lithuanian journalist who led one of the four groups of local irregulars, and a physician, Dr. Zigonys. Under Klimaitis's command, einsatzgruppe A organised six hundred of the most reliable irregulars into an auxillary police force; under the Zigony's command, another two hundred. On the night of 25 June 1941, the auxilleries bombed or set fire to serveral Kaunas synagogues and began rounding up Jews, plundering their houses and murdering them- 1,500 victims on the night of 25 June, on succeeding nights another 2,300..."
"...the SS advance detachment organised the Lithuanian irregulars. Einsatzgruppe A leader Stahlecker explained in a follow-up report that "it was not easy at first to set any large-scale anti-jewish pogrom in motion". But the SS found early collaborators in Algirdas Klimaitis, a Lithuanian journalist who led one of the four groups of local irregulars, and a physician, Dr. Zigonys. Under Klimaitis's command, einsatzgruppe A organised six hundred of the most reliable irregulars into an auxillary police force; under the Zigony's command, another two hundred. On the night of 25 June 1941, the auxilleries bombed or set fire to serveral Kaunas synagogues and began rounding up Jews, plundering their houses and murdering them- 1,500 victims on the night of 25 June, on succeeding nights another 2,300..."
"Masters of death" by Richard Rhodes
Exactly! Good posts.
This is why i find it important to collect schuma. Most do not have any idea about the purges in the baltics.
Many times the only thing that separated the schuma men from these countries, from each other were the national colors that were added to the sleeves, many times created by their own hands.
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by John1945
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