Algirdas Klimaitis

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Algirdas Klimaitis

Algirdas Jonas Klimaitis (1923 in Kaunas – 1988 in Germany) was a Lithuania

Lithuania

Lithuania , officially the Republic of Lithuania is a country in Northern Europe, the southernmost of the three Baltic states. Situated along the southeastern shore of the Baltic Sea, it shares borders with Latvia to the north, Belarus to the southeast, Poland, and the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad Oblast to the southwest....
n businessman, journalist and para-military commander.

For some time he was trading in livestock

Livestock

Livestock is the term used to refer to a domesticated animal intentionally reared in an agricultural setting to produce things such as food or fibre, or for its labour....
, but went bankrupt, later he began wrting to newspapers. Klimaitis is also known to be Nazi

Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany and the Third Reich are the colloquial English names for Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party , which established a Totalitarianism dictatorship that existed from 1933 to 1945....
agent since 1936. During the outbreak of the Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa

Operation Barbarossa was the code name for Nazi Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union during World War II that commenced on 22 June 1941. Over 4.5 million troops of the Axis powers invaded the USSR along a 2,900 kilometer front ....
, he formed a military unit of roughly 600 members and engaged in the battles with Soviet army for the control of Kaunas

Kaunas

Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and a Temporary capital of Lithuania. It is served by the freeways European route E67 and A1 highway ....
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Algirdas Jonas Klimaitis (1923 in Kaunas – 1988 in Germany) was a Lithuania

Lithuania

Livestock

Nazi Germany

Operation Barbarossa

Kaunas

Kaunas is the second largest city in Lithuania and a Temporary capital of Lithuania. It is served by the freeways European route E67 and A1 highway ....
. On the evening of June 23, most of the city was in the hands of insurgents . Klimaitis' unit was not subordinate to the Lithuanian Activist Front

Lithuanian Activist Front

Lithuanian Activist Front , commonly abbreviated as LAF, was a short-lived organisation established in 1940, when Lithuania was occupied by the Soviets....
or the Provisional Government of Lithuania

Provisional Government of Lithuania

Provisional Government of Lithuania was a temporary government aiming for independent Lithuania during the last days of the Soviet occupation and the first weeks of Germany occupation in 1941....
. On the night from 25-26 June, instigated by Nazi Security Police (Sipo)

Sicherheitspolizei

The Sicherheitspolizei , often abbreviated as SiPo, was a term used in Nazi Germany to describe the state political and criminal investigation security agencies....
and SD (Sicherheitsdienst

Sicherheitsdienst

The Sicherheitsdienst was primarily the intelligence service of the Schutzstaffel and the NSDAP. The organization was the first Nazi Party intelligence organization to be established and was often considered a "sister organization" with the Gestapo, which the SS had infiltrated heavily after 1934....
or Security Service, the intelligence arm of the Nazi Party), and personally by SS Brigadeführer

Brigadeführer

Brigadef?hrer was an SS rank that was used in Nazi Germany between the years of 1932 and 1945. Brigadef?hrer was also an SA rank.The rank was first created due to an expansion of the Schutzstaffel and assigned to those officers in command of SS-Brigaden....
Franz Walter Stahlecker

Franz Walter Stahlecker

Schutzstaffel

The , abbreviated SS- or - was a major Nazi organization under Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party. The SS grew from a small paramilitary unit to a powerful force that served as the F?hrer's "Praetorian Guard," the Nazi Party's "Shield Squadron" and a force that, fielding almost a million men, managed to exert as much political influence as th...
Brigadeführer

Brigadeführer

Franz Walter Stahlecker

Dr. Franz Walter Stahlecker was H?here SS- und Polizeif?hrer of Reichskommissariat Ostland. Stahlecker commanded Einsatzgruppe A, the most "efficient" of the four Einsatzgruppen active in Germany–occupied Eastern Europe....
, 3800 people were killed in Kaunas and further 1200 in other towns of the region . Numbers of victims in Stahlecker's report are probably exaggerated but pogroms indeed have happened .

Algirdas Klimaitis was eventually discovered living in Hamburg

Hamburg

Hamburg is the second-largest city in Germany , and is the Largest cities of the European Union by population within city limits. The city is home to approximately 1.8 million people, while the Hamburg metropolitan area has more than 4.3 million inhabitants....
, Germany, where he died in 1988.