The Evolution of wartime criminality in Lithuania, 1914-1920

ENThis chapter will primarily focus on the rise and evolution of wartime criminality, especially banditry, and its containment during the early postwar years. A few dozen recorded and relevant memoirs allow us to provide a view from below. I argue that wartime banditry evolved and was closely connected not only with the repressive policies of both Russian and German military regimes, but most of all with the emergence of numerous groups of Russian prisoners of war, who, having escaped from the German internment camps, hid in forests, and together with local criminals engaged in robbing and murdering the local civilian population. [Extract, p. 16-17]

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