Glinciszki massacre

Glinciszki (Glitiškės) massacre
Part of World War II
Glitiškės is located in Lithuania
Glitiškės
Glitiškės
Glitiškės (Lithuania)
LocationGlitiškės, Generalbezirk Litauen, Reichskommissariat Ostland
(Wilno Voivodeship, Poland until 1939, now in Lithuania)
Coordinates54°59′10″N 25°13′30″E / 54.98611°N 25.22500°E / 54.98611; 25.22500
Date20 June 1944
TargetPolish civilians
Attack type
Massacre
Deaths39
Perpetrators258th Lithuanian Police Battalion
No. of participants
~50
MotiveRevenge for the deaths of 4 policemen

The Glinciszki massacre (Polish: Zbrodnia w Glinciszkach; Lithuanian: Glitiškių žudynės) was a mass murder of Polish civilians by the German-subordinated 258th Lithuanian Police Battalion,[1] committed on 20 June 1944 in the village of Glinciszki (now Glitiškės in Lithuania) during World War II. In the massacre 39 civilians were murdered including 11 women (one in an advanced stage of pregnancy), 11 children, and 6 elderly men.[2] They were executed as a collective punishment for the death of four Lithuanian auxiliary policemen the previous evening.

In revenge, the Home Army (Polish: Armia Krajowa, abbreviated AK) brigade of Zygmunt Szendzielarz killed at least 68 Lithuanian civilians, three-quarters of whom were women and children,[3] by the end of June 1944 in Dubingiai and its surroundings as part of the Dubingiai massacre.[4][5]

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  2. ^ Rokicki 2015, p. 31.
  3. ^ Rokicki 2015, pp. 65–66.
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