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Lithuanian partisans is a term used by historians to describe Lithuanian collaborators with the Nazis. These partisans, mostly fighters against retreating Soviet forces during the June Uprising, were organized into various groups by Nazis to assist and actively participate in mass executions of Lithuanian Jews mostly in June–August 1941. The term applies to several different groups:

• A group led by Algirdas Klimaitis and active in Kaunas at the end of June 1941
• Tautinio Darbo Apsaugos Batalionas (TDA) formed in Kaunas as basis for independent Lithuanian army, but soon employed by the Nazis to execute Jews at the Seventh and Ninth Forts
• Lithuanian Self-Defence Units (police battalions) formed in Vilnius from 3,600 deserters from 29th Lithuanian Territorial Corps of the Red Army
• Ypatingasis būrys formed in Vilnius and participant in the Ponary massacre

References

1. Tadeusz Piotrowski, Poland's Holocaust, McFarland & Company, 1997, ISBN 0786403713, Google Print, p.164

• 20th century in Lithuania
• History of Lithuania
• Irregular military
• Jewish Lithuanian history
• Lithuanian Nazi collaborators
• Lithuanian partisans