Crimes of War
Subtitle: The Antanas Gecas Affair
Publisher: Mainstream Pub Co Ltd
Published: July 1994
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781851586127
Subjects: Military Science (General); Jewish Holocaust
Description: In 1941 the Nazis launched a ferocious assault on the Soviet Union, which included Lithuania. Gecas, like many other Lithuanians, saw the Nazis as liberators after years of Russian oppression. They were welcomed with flowers and open arms. Now organised genocide was the order of the day. Gecas and other volunteers in this police battalion, the 12th Auxiliary Lithuanian Police Battalion, relished the task ahead of them. Anthony Gecas held a position of command and responsibility. He was a platoon commander. He, therefore, knew what was planned, he gave the orders. This book is the story of an investigation into terrible war crimes which took place during the early days of the Nazi occupation of the western Soviet Union and the legal battle which followed.