Английская Википедия:258th Lithuanian Police Battalion

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258th Lithuanian Police Battalion (Шаблон:Lang-de;Шаблон:Sfn Шаблон:Lang-lt) was a Lithuanian auxiliary police battalion formed on 27 April 1944.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn The unit was disbanded in Tilsit at the end of July that same year.Шаблон:Sfn

Formation

The battalion was formed on April 27 by Order of the Day No.5 that was issued by the Ordnungspolizei leader under the SS- und Polizeiführer in Lithuania.Шаблон:Sfn This order created and formed the 258th Lithuanian Police Battalion, from the Training Units (Шаблон:Lang) of the LAD into the battalion.Шаблон:Sfn

History

This unit, or at least its headquarters, were deployed in Kaunas from April to mid-June, judging from the orders issued to the Training Units and the 258th Battalion.Шаблон:Sfn According to other sources, the battalion was located in Prienai in May 1944.Шаблон:Sfn At the time, two other battalions were deployed in Prienai barracks: one German, the other Lithuanian.Шаблон:Sfn The 258th battalion then included about 250 soldiers, whose uniform was blue Wehrmacht infantry uniforms.Шаблон:Sfn

April

On 1 April 1944, captain Albinas Lastauskas, the commander of the young soldiers' company, together with 21 other soldiers, was sent to the 259th Lithuanian Police Battalion, that was forming in Prienai.Шаблон:Sfn Lastauskas' position was taken over by non-commissioned officer Jurgis Normantas.Шаблон:Sfn The young soldiers' company, in terms of training supervision, was under the training company's commander.Шаблон:Sfn The training company's lieutenant Nikodemas Reikalas was given special holidays for May 28-June 9.Шаблон:Sfn

The 258th Battalion included one construction and one assembly company.Шаблон:Sfn The assembly company was commanded by lieutenant Petras Polekauskas.Шаблон:Sfn On April 1, the assembly company received lieutenant Jonas Paliulionis, 55 NCOs and soldiers from the 8th Battalion.Шаблон:Sfn On May 31, lieutenant Vytautas Andriuškevičius, also from the 8th Battalion, was also sent to the assembly company.Шаблон:Sfn On April 4, by the order of captain Antanas Ruzgys, commander of the Training Unit, 245 soldiers of the construction company were sent to the 259th Battalion.Шаблон:Sfn

On April 26, the Commander of the SiPo and SD ordered the arrests of Valerijonas Janulis, the 258th Battalion's staff junior non-commissioned officer, and private Antanas Plečkaitis.Шаблон:Sfn They were to be given over to the Gestapo.Шаблон:Sfn

May

On May 23, captain Viktoras Jarašiūnas from the 2nd Battalion, was appointed to serve in the battalion headquarters.Шаблон:Sfn Four days later, on May 27, captain Vladas Patašius from the 253th Battalion was temporarily appointed the Battalion commander's adjutant.Шаблон:Sfn For unknown reasons, the assembly company's private Antanas Strimaitis was arrested by the German police and imprisoned in the Kaunas Hard Labour Prison.Шаблон:Sfn On May 29, the privates Kazys Urbonas, Albertas Katilevičius, Kazys Paškevičius and Edvardas Lileika left the battalion.Шаблон:Sfn

June

At the beginning of June, the 258th Battalion was moved to Kaunas, where the soldiers guarded the military warehouses.Шаблон:Sfn At summer's beginning, one platoon from the battalion served at the 11th resistance point, which guarded the railway section near Kazlų Rūda, the railway station and the railway bridge.Шаблон:Sfn There were 16 soldiers armed with 1 light machine gun, 1 light mortar and rifles at this point of resistance.Шаблон:Sfn

As the Red Army occupied more and more of Lithuania, the battalion retreated to Tilsit.Шаблон:Sfn At the end of July, the 258th Battalion was disbanded in Tilsit.Шаблон:Sfn

Aftermath

From Tilsit, the battalion's remnants were moved to the town of Zinkst near the Belgium–Germany border to build fortifications there.Шаблон:Sfn Three weeks later, Lithuanian soldiers were sent to build new power lines at the Swiss border.Шаблон:Sfn The battalion's former soldiers were captured by the United States Army in early May 1945.Шаблон:Sfn

Some of the battalion's soldiers were transferred to other military units, while other were sent to a special camp on the Rügen island, where Lithuanians, Latvians, Estonians, Russians and Ukrainians were being taught military and intelligence subjects.Шаблон:Sfn

Bibliography

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