- Glinciszki massacre
Glinciszki massacre refers to a
mass murder that occurred on 20 June 1944 in the village ofGlitiškės ( _pl. Glinciszki). In the , thirty-seven mostly Polish villagers were killed byNazi subordinated Lithuanian policemen retaliating for the death of four policemen (from the 258th Police battalion)pl icon Henryk Piaskunowicz, "Działalnośc zbrojna Armi Krajowej na Wileńszczyśnie w latach 1942-1944" in cite book | author =Zygmunt Boradyn | coauthors =Andrzej Chmielarz, Henryk Piskunowicz | title =Armia Krajowa na Nowogródczyźnie i Wileńszczyźnie (1941-1945) | year =1997 | editor =Tomasz Strzembosz | pages =p. 40-45 | publisher =Institute of Political Sciences,Polish Academy of Sciences | location =Warsaw | isbn=8390716803 ] that occurred during a fight with element of the 5th Brigade of thePolish resistance ofArmia Krajowa earlier that day.Tadeusz Piotrowski, "Poland's Holocaust", McFarland & Company, 1997, ISBN 0786403713. [http://books.google.com/books?id=A4FlatJCro4C&pg=PA168&lpg=PA168&sig=Pq-OjHaAP-wfOIIJb_Gqu2GI3aQ Google Print, p.168] , [http://books.google.com/books?id=A4FlatJCro4C&pg=PA169&lpg=PA169&sig=mRA3077GHq2inwmDltCl0gNnCh4 p.169] ]The commander of the company of the 258th battalion, who ordered 10 villagers to be killed for every Lithuanian casualty in his unit and was thus primarily responsible for murder of civilians in Glitiškės, was arrested by the Germans, since one of the victims was employed in the German administration. He would be eventually tried and executed by Germans themselves. [http://www.xxiamzius.lt/numeriai/2004/08/18/zvil_01.html lt icon Kazimieras Garšva. "Armija krajova ir Vietinė rinktinė Lietuvoje" (Armia Krajowa and Local Lithuanian Detachment in Lithuania), "XXI amžius", No.61 (1264), 2004] ]
The massacre triggered a revenge of Polish partisans against Lithuanian policemen and civilians in
Dubingiai (20 to 27 Lithuanian civilians would perish).pl iconGazeta Wyborcza , 2001-02-14, " [http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/swiat/1,34175,151474.html Litewska prokuratura przesłuchuje weteranów AK"] (Lithuanian prosecutor questioning AK veterans), last accessed on 7 June 2006]References
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