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Švenčionys massacre

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'''Švenčionys massacre''' () took place on 19-20 May 1942 when the [[Lithuanian Security Police]] murdered around 400<ref name=":0"></ref> to 1,200<ref>Liquid error: wrong number of arguments (given 1, expected 2)</ref> Poles in the German-occupied village of [[Święciany]] (now Švenčionys, Lithuania).

The massacre was a reprisal action for the assassination of two German officers including Joseph Beck carried out by Soviet partisans. Germans ordered arrests and execution of local Poles, with over 1,200 fatalities among the local Polish populace over the next few days. The reprisals have been carried out by the [[Lithuanian Security Police]] under the command of [[Jonas Maciulevičius]].<ref name="Piotrowski1998"></ref> Maciulevičius has been executed in Poland in 1950. In early 2000s Polish [[Institute of National Remembrance]] reinvestigated the crime, and concluded that no other living perpetrators of this crime remain identified and alive, closing the investigation in 2005.<ref name=":0" />

== See also ==
* [[Švenčionys Ghetto]]

==References==






[[Category:1942 in Lithuania]]
[[Category:Massacres in the 1940s]]
[[Category:Lithuanian collaboration with Nazi Germany]]
[[Category:World War II crimes in Poland]]
[[Category:Mass murder in 1942]]
[[Category:World War II massacres]]
[[Category:Lithuania–Poland relations]]
[[Category:Reichskommissariat Ostland]]
[[Category:May 1942 events]]


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