Valdas Adamkus Biography

Of the official biographies, such “uncomfortable” episodes have been lured out, as the “red past” of another Lithuanian president was hidden until recently - Dali Gribauskaite. The former minor prisoner of the Minsk ghetto Zviya Katsnelson accused the ex-president of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus of anti-Semitism. After reading the memoirs of Adamkus, Katsnelson was surprised why the native of Kaunas in his memoirs did not pay attention to the tragic fate of the Jews of this city.

She was even more shocked by the news that in the fall of the year the future president served under the command of the infamous Major Antanas Impulyavichyus and was his guarantee. Impulovicius became famous for the organization of reprisals against the Jews of Lithuania and Belarus, in the history of the Holocaust entered the nickname "Minsk butcher." The talents of the impuliavichyus and accomplices regarding the mass destruction of Jews praised the German command.

The Lithuanians killed with such zeal and professionalism that the Germans specially brought them victims from other occupied territories.

They were brought here for vaccination - Jews went into pits with rolled sleeves in anticipation of vaccination. The Lithuanians worked so well that the Antanas of the Impulovicius was taken to Belarus - 15 Jews were killed there. The Germans were very pleased. " The young man could not but know the overall picture, he also knew about the echelons of death arriving at Kaunas station, because he was a relative of a high railway rank, ”Katsnelson was indignant.

The father of Adamkus Ignas Adamkevyavicus really managed the police of the Kaunas railway station during the war years. Adamkus writes in his memoirs that he could choose any place of service, but went to the Impulovicius battalion, but does not mention his crimes at all, the Baltnews portal notes. Adamkus tries not to particularly advertise his own stay in the same unit with the impuliavichyus.

Various official biographies report that he and his family in the summer of the year fled from Lithuania to Germany, fearing the arrival of the Soviet troops and repeated occupation. On this, the "military period" in the life of the politician breaks. Mentions of the autumn battles of the year are either absent, or are extremely sparingly-Adamkus quickly returned to fight with Soviet troops, but was again forced to flee due to "adverse circumstances." The Lithuanian seal does not like to delve into the intricacies of the combat glory of one of his leaders.

At the time of the events described, Valdas Adamkus was born a summer gymnasium artist in the year under the name of Voldemaras Adamkekyavichi. The Union was created in the year to fight the Soviet regime. With the advent of the Germans, he adhered to the progerman orientation and was proud that many Lithuanians were pouring in the Wehrmacht. An open letter of the Union of Freedom of Lithuania by the German Commissars of the Civil Administration of July 7 under the book of Pyatrats Stankerasa “Lithuanian police battalions.

Hitler said that almost all peoples of Europe helped Germany in the East. Among them, he mentioned Lithuanians, Estonians, Ukrainians and Tatars. We think that our volunteers in the East have about - Bayonets of the Lithuanian people in relation to their population gave significantly more soldiers than all of the listed peoples. ” The organization was born on July 29.

Several Lithuanian officers gathered in the vicinity of the city of Telshyay to discuss whether to enter into the Wehrmacht to fight directly with the advice, or to conduct partisan actions, being an independent combat unit. With a slight superiority of votes, the second option was chosen. The squad was collected from the remnants of several defeated and dissolved Lithuanian collaboratory groups and diluted with an ideological youth.

Historian Pyatrats Stakeras, “Lithuanian police battalions. The fighters of the AOO were dressed in the Wehrmacht uniform, the Germans did not mind that the shields of national flowers were sewn on the left sleeve, and military trucks would have the emblem of the “Pillars of Gediminas”, armed with French and Soviet weapons. He hoped that German physicists would create a secret atomic weapon and stop the offensive of the Red Army.

” Meder provided a different version - he sold the Lithuanians weapons and uniforms and became the curator of the detachment. Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania - and - Gg. About time, events, people ”:“ He arrived at the headquarters, introduced himself. The surname Adamkaviyus was well known to the military, since my uncle was the divisional general of the Lithuanian army, commanded the Kaunas Military District, she opened all the doors in Sede.

” The officers, the officers, initially wanted them to be headed by his native uncle Adamkus-Edwards Adamkevichus, a retired division general, who fought back in the tsarist army. The headquarters sent his nephew to persuade his uncle, but nothing came of it. To which the young Adamkus said that his uncle forgot about his oath and betrayed Lithuania. As a result, Captain Izidorus Yatulis began to lead the squad.

The headquarters archive of the squad survived during the war and was transported abroad. The American historian of the Lithuanian Army Henry L. Gaidis restored the team structure of the squad and the fact that the Minsk butcher Impulovicius commanded the 1st battalion in the 2nd regiment.The position of Impulovicius as part of the Defense Army was confirmed by historian Andrei Stolyarov in the work of Vitautas the Great and dedicated to the Lithuanian police battalions at the University of Kaunas.

Meder dreamed that the united Lithuanian squad would increase over time to the division, but it lasted several months until the Red Army was all overwhelmed by a vesting and gray -haired in October of the year. Historian Sergey Chuev, “Damned Soldiers. Traitors on the side of the III Reich ”:“ The remnants of the “Army” of the number of people near the person managed to retreat with the Germans to East Prussia, where they were reorganized into the Lithuanian sapper battalion, consisting of eight mouths.

The battalion built fortifications on the Baltic coast and later also hit the Courland boiler. This circumstance allowed a significant part of Tar soldiers to go into the forests in Lithuania, thus laying a human reserve for the guerrilla warfare in the Soviet rear. ” About time, events, people ”:“ Sweeping everything around, Russian tanks broke into the town.

We did not have weapons, we could not resist, but we opened a crazy fire for us, forcing us to flee through an open field, which harvested shells and bullets hanging from the sides of the military trucks of the running German army, we moved towards the Baltic Sea. At the Railway station in Kreing, heavy tanks were still on the platforms, which the Germans hoped to take out of the closing ring of the environment.

Having guessed the moment when the guards turned my back to me, I jumped on one of the platforms and climbed under the tank. ” So for Adamkus, "unfavorable circumstances" came. He did not want to retreat with the Germans or go to partisans with the “forest brothers”, so he re -escorted to Germany. From there he moved to the United States, settling in Chicago. Impulyavichus also recovered to America, settling in Philadelphia, where he died in the year.

The Soviet court in absentia sentenced him to the death penalty, but the American authorities refused extradition. Adamkus prefers not to spread about the details of service with his infamous fellow soldier. We turned to the signator Sigmas Vaishville, known for their studies of dark places in the biographies of the Lithuanian politicians of the first echelon. Sigmas Vaishvili, a politician, a businessman, a signator of the act of restoring Lithuania independence: “Foggy places in the stories of our leaders are not uncommon.

It is not surprising that all our presidents, except for Brazauskas, have "white spots." Much about their life is unknown, especially for people who came from afar from Europe or America. Many are trying to retouch the Soviet periods of their biographies, but not only - some are silent for their career at the beginning of X and what they did during the war. In the case of Adamkus, who lived abroad for a long time, even less clarity.

” Adamkus himself was always proud of the combat past. During the presidential race of the year, while still little -known in the historical homeland, he visited her to meet with residents. Later, on Independence Day in the year, he again recalled the impulses with which the youth went into battle. Valdas Adamkus, President of Lithuania in - and - Gg. During the war, when the Soviet army was approaching Lithuania, self -defense units and Lithuanian detachments of the Zemaitians were formed in Sede.

Patriotism and idealism erupted in conditions where there was no logic when the youth gathered in the gray with bare hands. Young people longed to defend their homeland, although there were no weapons. I remember that there were German pistols and French bullets inappropriate for them. Now they are trying to turn all this, to say that we had served the German army. Although none of us even had a German uniform.

In my own skin I experienced battles that unfolded near Seda, about a hundred wonderful Lithuanians died in them. Fate gave me to survive and go to the west. " However, in Lithuania are those who doubt that the future president generally participated in hostilities. An unpleasant incident occurred in the year when a summer resident of Telshya announced that he had heard at a veteran meeting, allegedly, having fled from the battlefield, the gymnasium student Adamkus by force took a horse and a cart from the peasant.

Stanislovas Abromyavichyus, poet and writer: “Our future president at that time was only 17 years old. They say, he was not even armed and, apparently, got there by chance. ” Journalist and publicist Cheslovas Ishkauskas notes that, contrary to rumors, the heroes of the “War of Independence” could be 17-18 years old, and cites the example of the veteran of Vladas Klazauskas, the author of memoirs “The Spirit of the Struggle”.

About what the Lithuanian collaboration detachments were, Boris Kovalev, a doctor of historical sciences, the leading researcher of the St. Petersburg Institute of History of the Russian Academy of Sciences:-What were the Lithuanian units acting together with the Wehrmacht? They left a bad memory. I wrote a book about the Spanish Blue Division. Local residents said that there were thieves and gypsies - as they called Spanish volunteers - instead of them came killers and sadists.

Unmotivated cruelty was characteristic of units from Lithuania and Latvia. Motives - to show themselves by the allies of the Germans and the new authorities. The detachments could be volunteer in content, but the formation of armed groups took place under the most severe control of the Germans. I would not say that the Germans used them in the most heavy sections of the front.

Lithuanians were used in the most "dirty" areas. Sometimes the Germans had to act in relations with the local population as “good investigators” to treat them better than their allies. In the year, the Nazis were already ready to collect everyone, without exception, who was ready to fight with them. Indeed, by that time, Nazi Germany began to lose its basic allies - Italy, Finland, Romania.

Germany was ready to put on anyone, to give any promises, thus contributing to the creation of allied detachments. All the best weapons and uniforms were to go to German soldiers.