Alytaus internuotų asmenų stovykla 1941 m. vasarą

LTReikšminiai žodžiai: Alytaus internuotų asmenų stovyklą 1941 m; Alytus; Internuoti asmenys; Internuotų asmenų stovykla, Antrasis pasaulinis karas; Karo belaisvių stovykla; Lokalinė istorija; Raudonoji armija; Vokietijos ir Sovietų Sąjungos karas; Vokietijos-SSSR karo pradžia 1941 m. birželio 22 d.; Vokiečių okupacija; Alytus; German and Soviet war; German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941; German occupied Lithuania; Internees; Internment camps; Prisoner of war camp; Red Army, Local history; Second World War; The internment camp in Alytus 1941.

ENOn June 22, 1941 early in the morning the German - Soviet war began. Alytus was severely bombed, because there were the 3rd Mechanized Corps of the 5th Panzer Division of the Red Army, as well as the Regiment of Fighter Aircraft, Anti-aircraft Artillery Division which were supposed to cover the airfields and other facilities. There were about 20000 soldiers in Alytus. During the first few days of the war, about 300 people were the victims of the German occupiers in Alytus. Several residents were killed in the bombings. During the first week of the war 271 Wehrmacht soldiers and about 3000 soldiers of the Red Army were killed in Alytus. On June 23-24 Germans captured about 100 people who were placed in the temporary camp near St. Casimir Church. The camp operated until the middle of July and there were about 180 civilians. From the archival documents it is possible to learn that there were 26 former officers and 399 soldiers of the Lithuanian Army, as well as an indeterminate number of Russian prisoners of war in the internment camp. It is thought that from June 23 to July 16, 1941 there were up to 1000 people in the camp. In the early July civilians were released, some of the Lithuanian soldiers were transported to a prison camp in Suvalkai (occupied Poland), while the others were allowed to go home. On July 17 the camp for the Red Army soldiers and prisoners of war was established in the eastern part of the city, in the former barracks. [From the publication]