Talk:258th Lithuanian Police Battalion

Lithuanian Polisce Battalions allegiance to Nazi Germany

Recently, information about their allegiance to Nazi Germany was removed from the infobox in articles about Lithuanian auxiliary police battalions (259th, 258th, 256th, 10th). In my opinion, this is a mistake and it should be reverted to the previous state of affairs. These battalions were units formed from ethnic Lithuanians that were subordinate to German authorities and carried out their orders. It is enough to quote the researcher of collaboration in Lithuania Joachim Tauber: The Development or Labor Services very quickly progressed into Lithuanian auxiliary police battalions, which were subordinate to the Commander of the Ordnungspolizei. These battalions consisted largely of volunteers with a background in the military or in the police, and from the start their duties involved not only security, but also ideological matters. Some of the units became nothing more than murder squads and served as the executioners of entire Jewish communities, or as the guards of the ghettos into which the survivors were crammed. [Tauber, Joachim (2021). "Collaboration in Lithuania". In Bitunjac, Martina; Schoeps, Julius H. (eds.). Complicated Complicity: European Collaboration with Nazi Germany during World War II. p. 129.] Marcelus (talk) 20:02, 3 October 2023 (UTC)

Fixed [1]. Cukrakalnis (talk) 11:16, 4 October 2023 (UTC)