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    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...
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  • basketball player Kazys Šimonis (1887–1978), Lithuanian painter Kazys Škirpa (born 1895), Lithuanian military officer and diplomat Kazys Tallat-Kelpša (1893–1968)...
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    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...
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  • rebel against the Soviet Union and establish an independent Lithuania. Kazys Škirpa, a former Lithuanian military attaché to Germany, founded the LAF on...
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  • (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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Kulikauskas, Andrius. Documents Which Argue for Ethnic Cleansing (by Kazys Škirpa, Stasys Raštikis, Stasys Lozoraitis and Petras Klimas in 1940–1941 and...
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    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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    food warehouses, protecting them from potential scorched earth tactics. Kazys Škirpa, founder of LAF, had been preparing for the uprising since at least March...
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    Front Литовский фронт активистов Lietuvių Aktyvistų Frontas LAF ЛФА Kazys Škirpa Lithuanian independence Nazism Anti-communism Antisemitism Anti-Polonism...
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    Front (LAF), a resistance organisation founded in Berlin and led by Kazys Škirpa whose goal was to liberate Lithuania and re-establish its independence...
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  • of Vilnius City Municipality. Radžvilas initiated protests to defend Kazys Škirpa, leader of the Lithuanian Activist Front in 1941. "Vytautas RADŽVILAS"...
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    and started the diplomatic liberation campaign of Lithuania. In 1941, Kazys Škirpa, Leonas Prapuolenis, Juozas Ambrazevičius and their supporters, including...
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  • did not recognize it diplomatically, or allow Lithuanian ambassador Kazys Škirpa to become prime minister, instead actively thwarting his activities....
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    central military and government offices and arrested officials. Colonel Kazys Škirpa, who had initiated the military reform program, tried to rally troops...
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    after the changing of a street name honouring another collaborator, Kazys Škirpa. However, in September 2019, the Lithuanian nationalist youth organisation...
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    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...
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  • did not recognize it diplomatically, or allow Lithuanian ambassador Kazys Škirpa to become prime minister, instead actively thwarting his activities....
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    after the ultimatum, both Lithuania and Poland named their ambassadors. Kazys Škirpa was sent to Warsaw, and Franciszek Charwat was sent to Kaunas before...
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    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...
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    mayor of Vilnius, Šimašius renamed a street that had been named after Kazys Škirpa (who formed the Lithuanian Activist Front which went on to carry out...
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    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...
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    Interior Kazys Skučas). Soldiers of the 9th Infantry Regiment were targeted. On the personal order of the former Minister of National Defense Kazys Musteikis...
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  • 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;...
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  • 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...
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  • NKVD. A number of voldemarininkai escaped to Germany where they joined Kazys Škirpa in organizing the Lithuanian Activist Front (LAF). There were six or...
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    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...
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