Background Kaunas pogrom
the lithuanian activist front (laf), national liberation organisation operating inside soviet lithuania, took control of city , of lithuanian countryside on evening of june 23. nazi ss brigadeführer franz walter stahlecker arrived in kaunas on morning of june 25. visited headquarters of lithuanian security police , delivered long anti-semitic speech encouraging lithuanians solve jewish problem . according stahlecker s report of october 15, local lithuanians not enthusiastic pogrom , had use algirdas klimaitis , men. klimaitis controlled paramilitary unit of 600 men organized in tilsit sd , not subordinated laf.
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