The Massacre of the Jews of Lithuania by Karen Sutton

Author:Karen Sutton [Sutton, Karen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9789652294005
Publisher: Gefen Publishing House
Published: 2014-03-27T00:00:00+00:00

Notes

1. International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg (hereinafter: IMT). See also K. Skirpa’s diary about the foundation of the LAF (hereinafter: Skirpa’s Notes) and its link to the German intelligence service, and B. Baranauskas and K. Ruksenas, Documents Accuse (Vilnius: Gintaras, 1970), p. 65.

2. Pajaujis-Javis, Soviet Genocide in Lithuania, p. 67.

3. In 1960–1962, the Academy of Sciences of the Lithuanian SSR published five books in a series that it titled Documents Accuse (hereinafter: DA). The fourth book treats the organization known as the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF); see text on p. 130. The quotation is from B. Baranauskas and K. Ruksenas, who compiled and edited this work, p. 16.

4. From K. Skirpa’s diary concerning the foundation of the Lithuanian Front and its link to the German intelligence service. See DA, p. 65. See also K. Skirpa, “Gaires i tauto suklima,” I Laisve, no. 27 (December 1961): 7.

5. IMT, PS 1029, vol. 3, p. 691. See Hillgruber, “Die Endlösung.” See also Gerald Fleming, Hitler and the Final Solution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1984).

6. “Lithuanian Activist Front Appeal: All Forward Together to Create a New Lithuania,” July-August 1940; Kaslas, USSR-German Aggression, p. 309.

7. Skirpa’s Notes, pp. 65–79. See also K. Skirpa, “Apie Lietuviu Aktyvistu Fronto Veikla,” Lituanistikos Darbai 2 (1969): 77–123.

8. Kaslas, USSR-German Aggression, p. 309. On difficulties in efforts to coordinate plans between the LAF in Berlin and autonomous local Lithuanian groups, see Antanas Pocius, “Kap. Pranas Guzaitis ir pogrindis,” I Laisve (Chicago), no. 3 (1954); and Adolfas Damusis, “Pasiruosta ir Ivykdyta,” I Laisve (Chicago), no. 3 (1954): 4–5.

9. Stasys Rastikis, Kovose del Lietuvos; kario atsiminimai (Los Angeles: Lietuviu Dienos, 1956–1957), vol. 2, p. 149. The Voldemarists in Eastern Prussia pressured Skirpa to appoint K. Brunius, B. Pyragius, and R. Puodzius. The Germans wanted Skirpa to accept the Voldemarist leader S. Meskauskas as his deputy; Skirpa declined, as noted in Budreckis, The Lithuanian National Revolt, p. 28. See also Skirpa, “Apie Lietuviu Aktyvistu Fronto Veikla”; Akten zur deutschen auswärtigen Politik, 1918–1945, Series D, XII (Baden, Baden, 1956), p. 349.

10. Kazys Skirpa, “Sukilimines Vyriausybes geneze [Genesis of the insurrectionist government,” Nepriklausoma Lietuva [Independent Lithuania] (Montreal, 1951–1952). See also Rastikis, Kovose del Lietuvos, vol. 2, p. 154–155.

11. Memorandum of an Official with ABWII/Military Intelligence, Dr. Pactzold, June 22, 1942, German Foreign Ministry Archives, June 1941.

12. Ibid.

13. Ibid.

14. Memorandum from former Lithuanian Minister in Berlin to German Foreign Minister, June 19, 1941, on behalf of Lithuanian National Committee, German Foreign Ministry Archives, June 1941.

15. Akten zur deutschen auswärtigen Politik, 1918–1945, Series D, XII (Baden, Baden: Imprimerie Nationale, 1956), no. 650.

16. Lithuanian Bulletin, no. 5–7 (May-July 1948).

17. Ibid.

18. New York Times, June 23, 1941, Associated Press dispatch from Berlin.

19. Peter Kleist, Zwischen Hitler und Stalin, 1939–1945 (Bonn: Athenaeum-Verlag, 1950), pp. 155–156.

20. Memorandum by an Official of the OKW, Litter (June 24, 1941), Records of the German Armed Forces High Command (Oberkommando der Wehrmacht — OKW), June 1941.

21. OKW Directive to the Armed Forces in Lithuania (June 26, 1941), Records of the German Armed Forces High Command, June 1941.

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