A Lithuanian police officer refers to Jews
Policiniai Batalionai (Lithuanian for police battalions) during the Second World War had paramilitary units composed of Lithuanians who collaborated with the Germans. In German, these units, like those consisting of men from other countries, were called Schutzmannschaftsbataillons. History
With the German attack on the Soviet Union a year later, Lithuania was placed under German authority. Many Lithuanian residents saw this as a liberation, as they had a great aversion to the Soviet Union, the country that had occupied Lithuania a year earlier.
Different groups of Lithuanian former soldiers, police officers and nationalists (including many students) began to prosecute and kill Lithuanian Jews. Many joined the oppressive German army to further expel the Soviet Union troops. At the end of 1941 these different groups were reorganized in an official framework of battalions, called Policiniai Batalionai. In 1942 there were twenty battalions, with a total of 8,388 people, of whom 341 officers and 1,772 were officers. Most officers had previously served in the Lithuanian army. The leaders of the Lithuanian unit had to report directly to the SS.
The Policiniai Batalionai - especially the battalions 1 and 2 - played an important role in the massacre on the Lithuanian Jews and in nearby parts of Poland and Belarus. After the war several members of the Policiniai Batalionai were charged. Some were found guilty of assassination of civilians and prisoners of war and received various penalties.
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