Lithuanian TDA Battalion

The Lithuanian TDA (Lithuanian: Tautinio darbo apsaugos; lit. 'National labor service'[nb 1]) Battalion or simply TDA,[1] was a paramilitary battalion organized in June–August 1941 by the Provisional Government of Lithuania at the onset of Operation Barbarossa.[2] Members of the TDA were known by many names such as Lithuanian auxiliaries, policemen, white-armbands, nationalists, rebels, partisans, resistance fighters or Schutzmannschaften.[2] TDA was intended to be the basis for a future independent Lithuanian Army, but it was taken over by Nazis and reorganized into the Lithuanian Auxiliary Police Battalions.[3] The original TDA eventually became the 12th and the 13th Police Battalions. These two units took an active role in mass killings of the Jews in Lithuania and Belarus.[4] According to the Jäger Report, the TDA battalion's members killed about 26,000 Jews between July and December 1941.[5]


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  2. ^ a b Robert van Voren (2011). Undigested Past: The Holocaust in Lithuania. Rodopi. p. 77. ISBN 978-9401200707. Retrieved 20 July 2014.
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  4. ^ Atamukas, Solomonas (Winter 2001). "The Hard Long Road Toward the Truth: On the Sixtieth Anniversary of the Holocaust in Lithuania". Lituanus. 4 (47). ISSN 0024-5089. Archived from the original on 2020-07-27. Retrieved 2008-03-29.
  5. ^ Bubnys, Arūnas (2004). "The Holocaust in Lithuania: An Outline of the Major Stages and Results". The Vanished World of Lithuanian Jews. Rodopi. pp. 209–210. ISBN 90-420-0850-4.