Antanas Impulevičius-Impulėnas (a.k.a. Antanas Impulionis,
[ ] 28 January 1907 – 4 December 1970) was an officer of the
Lithuanian Army, reaching the rank of major in 1940,
[ ][ ] and later a
Nazi collaborator. After the
occupation of Lithuania by the Soviet Union, he was arrested by
NKVD
The People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (russian: Наро́дный комиссариа́т вну́тренних дел, Naródnyy komissariát vnútrennikh del, ), abbreviated NKVD ( ), was the interior ministry of the Soviet Union.
...
.
He was freed during the
Uprising of June 1941. Impulevičius joined the ''
Lithuanian Schutzmannschaft'' and commanded the 12th Police Battalion. His unit was sent to Belarus where it participated in
mass executions of the Jews, particularly in
Minsk
Minsk ( be, Мінск ; russian: Минск) is the capital and the largest city of Belarus, located on the Svislach and the now subterranean Niamiha rivers. As the capital, Minsk has a special administrative status in Belarus and is the admi ...
and
Kletsk
Kletsk ( be, Клецк, Klieck, originally known as ''Klechesk'', russian: Клецк, pl, Kleck, ) is a city in the Minsk Region of Belarus, located on the Lan River. In 2015 it had 11,237 inhabitants.
History
The town was founded in the ...
. He also joined the short-lived
Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force The Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force or LTDF ( lt, Lietuvos vietinė rinktinė, LVR, german: Litauische Sonderverbände) was a short-lived, Lithuanian, volunteer armed force created and disbanded in 1944 during the German occupation of Lithuani ...
. In 1944, he moved to Germany, and in 1949 he relocated to the United States.
In 1962, the Supreme Court of the
Lithuanian SSR
The Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic (Lithuanian SSR; lt, Lietuvos Tarybų Socialistinė Respublika; russian: Литовская Советская Социалистическая Республика, Litovskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialistiche ...
sentenced him to death ''in absentia''.
After the trial, the United States dismissed a Soviet request to extradite him.
archived fro
the original
on 2016-08-05.
References
1907 births
1970 deaths
Lithuanian Army officers
People from Panevėžys
Lithuanian Auxiliary Police
Lithuanian emigrants to the United States
Holocaust perpetrators in Belarus
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Nazis sentenced to death in absentia
People sentenced to death in absentia by the Soviet Union