The Lietūkis Garage Massacre
27 June 1941: Horrific mass murder that was a also a public spectacle
As the Wehrmacht broke into the Baltic states as well as western Russia they were accompanied by SS killing squads – the Einsatzgruppen. Their task was to ‘deal’ with the communist officials and other ‘enemies of the Reich’ – principally the Jewish population. Their murders began immediately. Most of the Jewish rural population of Lithuania, the souther…
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