Kazys Škirpa (18 February 1895 – 18 August 1979) was a Lithuanian military officer and diplomat. He is best known as the founder of the Lithuanian Activist...
15 KB (1,291 words) - 17:34, 29 July 2024
basketball player Kazys Šimonis (1887–1978), Lithuanian painter Kazys Škirpa (born 1895), Lithuanian military officer and diplomat Kazys Tallat-Kelpša (1893–1968)...
1 KB (189 words) - 20:42, 13 June 2023
fall of 1940, was to re-establish Lithuanian independence. Started by Kazys Škirpa in Berlin, the LAF sought to unify the Lithuanian resistance, and organize...
43 KB (4,378 words) - 17:51, 24 June 2024
Kazys Grinius ([kɐˈzʲiːs ˈɡʲrʲɪnʲʊs] , 17 December 1866 – 4 June 1950) was the third President of Lithuania, holding the office from 7 June 1926 to 17...
27 KB (3,176 words) - 14:35, 11 August 2024
rebel against the Soviet Union and establish an independent Lithuania. Kazys Škirpa, a former Lithuanian military attaché to Germany, founded the LAF on...
33 KB (3,520 words) - 01:44, 7 July 2024
Kulikauskas, Andrius. Documents Which Argue for Ethnic Cleansing (by Kazys Škirpa, Stasys Raštikis, Stasys Lozoraitis and Petras Klimas in 1940–1941 and...
49 KB (5,132 words) - 07:54, 14 August 2024
rumors. On 20 March Ribbentrop agreed to meet with Urbšys, but not with Kazys Škirpa, who was asked to wait in another room. The conversation lasted for about...
21 KB (2,511 words) - 19:48, 20 July 2024
been taken as far as portraying Nazi pogroms as retaliation. LAF leader Kazys Škirpa, former Lithuanian envoy to Germany, was named prime minister. But he...
16 KB (1,651 words) - 09:56, 22 July 2024
state against southern USSR's sphere of influence). German propossals to Kazys Škirpa to transform Lithuania into a German Protectorate in the north, and the...
50 KB (5,161 words) - 07:16, 21 August 2024
food warehouses, protecting them from potential scorched earth tactics. Kazys Škirpa, founder of LAF, had been preparing for the uprising since at least March...
39 KB (4,054 words) - 01:11, 20 August 2024
supervised and allowed to communicate only with Lithuanian representative, Kazys Škirpa. The Germans did not allow him to make any political moves so as not...
41 KB (4,641 words) - 11:47, 18 August 2024
Front Литовский фронт активистов Lietuvių Aktyvistų Frontas LAF ЛФА Kazys Škirpa Lithuanian independence Nazism Anti-communism Antisemitism Anti-Polonism...
156 KB (1,539 words) - 18:36, 1 August 2024
(LAF) in Berlin, headed by former Lithuanian envoy in Berlin Colonel Kazys Škirpa. Formally founded as an alliance of all anti-communist parties, it quickly...
19 KB (2,494 words) - 10:31, 9 July 2024
Ribbentrop agreed to meet Urbšys but not the Lithuanian Ambassador to Berlin, Kazys Škirpa, who was asked to wait in another room. The conversation lasted for about...
95 KB (11,855 words) - 03:22, 19 August 2024
Front (LAF), a resistance organisation founded in Berlin and led by Kazys Škirpa whose goal was to liberate Lithuania and re-establish its independence...
45 KB (4,903 words) - 16:12, 7 August 2024
after the changing of a street name honouring another collaborator, Kazys Škirpa. However, in September 2019, the Lithuanian nationalist youth organisation...
25 KB (2,298 words) - 18:49, 9 August 2024
of Vilnius City Municipality. Radžvilas initiated protests to defend Kazys Škirpa, leader of the Lithuanian Activist Front in 1941. "Vytautas RADŽVILAS"...
12 KB (1,158 words) - 19:03, 16 August 2024
and started the diplomatic liberation campaign of Lithuania. In 1941, Kazys Škirpa, Leonas Prapuolenis, Juozas Ambrazevičius and their supporters, including...
182 KB (16,808 words) - 12:18, 18 August 2024
did not recognize it diplomatically, or allow Lithuanian ambassador Kazys Škirpa to become prime minister, instead actively thwarting his activities....
197 KB (20,002 words) - 17:31, 11 August 2024
concentration camp. After five months, he was freed due to the efforts of Kazys Škirpa. Prapuolenis lived in Munich under police supervision, but kept contacts...
15 KB (1,508 words) - 15:34, 27 April 2024
did not recognize it diplomatically, or allow Lithuanian ambassador Kazys Škirpa to become prime minister, instead actively thwarting his activities....
30 KB (3,324 words) - 03:36, 15 August 2024
were imprisoned. The Lithuanian Activist Front was formed in Berlin by Kazys Škirpa, former Lithuanian envoy to Germany. Its goal was to organize an anti-Soviet...
31 KB (2,287 words) - 14:26, 27 July 2024
after the ultimatum, both Lithuania and Poland named their ambassadors. Kazys Škirpa was sent to Warsaw, and Franciszek Charwat was sent to Kaunas before...
35 KB (4,372 words) - 20:01, 8 June 2024
Gulbieniszki, but failing to capture Suwałki. Also on September 4, Kazys Škirpa's battalion from the centre column, which tried to take Suwałki from the...
18 KB (1,928 words) - 07:44, 27 June 2024
reported for duty and was assigned to the Vilnius Battalion organized by Kazys Škirpa (later the 5th Infantry Regiment of Grand Duke Kęstutis). The battalion...
41 KB (4,637 words) - 13:40, 15 June 2024
NKVD. A number of voldemarininkai escaped to Germany where they joined Kazys Škirpa in organizing the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF). There were six or...
35 KB (4,057 words) - 04:09, 7 July 2024
Interior Kazys Skučas). Soldiers of the 9th Infantry Regiment were targeted. On the personal order of the former Minister of National Defense Kazys Musteikis...
31 KB (3,077 words) - 18:47, 27 September 2023
began to be organized in Kaunas by the Commandant Officer of Kaunas, Kazys Škirpa, by the order of the Minister of National Defense. The Separate Battalion's...
8 KB (770 words) - 06:45, 2 January 2024
Grigiškis. He was also elected in II (Kaunas) but gave up his seat for Kazys Gencevičius; III (Raseiniai) where he gave up his seat for Jonas Makauskas;...
40 KB (786 words) - 04:49, 21 March 2024
in Lithuania. The LAF was founded in Berlin by Lithuanian ambassador Kazys Škirpa. Its goal was to rebuild a Lithuania independent of the Soviets under...
22 KB (2,474 words) - 08:47, 12 July 2024