The Nazi regime envisioned Lithuania as a future part of
Greater Germany, and wasn't much interested in Lithuanian independence. It did allow the Provisional Government to operate while it was useful.[citation needed]
Literary historian
Juozas Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis became acting prime minister instead of Škirpa.[4]
He served from June 23, 1941 to August 5, 1941.
Vygantas Vareikis [
lt] wrote that the Lithuanian Provisional Government "did not encourage brutal actions" against Jews or LAF leaders, and the local press proposed that only high-ranking Communist officials and
NKVD officers should be punished by death.[5] Lithuanian rebels had liberated Lithuania by the time the
Wehrmacht arrived, and rescued over 300 political prisoners who would have been killed by
Cheka.[6] The June Uprising laid the foundations for
anti-Nazi resistance that later transformed into an
anti-Soviet resistance.[6] The Provisional Government did little to stop the anti-Jewish violence encouraged by the Nazis and the anti-Semitic leadership of the
Lithuanian Activist Front.[citation needed] Lithuanian police battalions formed by the Provisional Government helped the Nazis carry out the
Holocaust.[7] Stanislovas Stasiulis pictured the history of the Holocaust in Lithuania as "three layers and periods." The first, he wrote, involves the relationship between Lithuanians and Jews during the Nazi occupation, and the second followed the Soviet re-occupation.[8] The third period of interest covers the historiography since 1990, he wrote, which has attempted new and open discussions of the defensive (emigré) and ideological (Soviet) reactions to the Holocaust. The Soviet refusal to acknowledge the racialism of the Holocaust helped trigger a defensive cultural response known as
double genocide theory, which equated the Holocaust and the Stalinist brutality meted out to Lithuanian by the Soviets. Considered a form of Holocaust trivialization, this paradigm has sometimes been taken as far as portraying Nazi pogroms as retaliation.
LAF leader
Kazys Škirpa, former Lithuanian
envoy to Germany, was named
prime minister. But he was in Berlin and the Germans put him under house arrest.
Rapolas Skipitis, another minister-to-be in Berlin, was prevented from leaving as well.[9]Vytautas Bulvičius was to become Minister of Defence but the Soviets arrested him on 2 June and General
Stasys Raštikis replaced him.[10]
The Provisional Government dissolved in August 1941 after deciding that it had failed to achieve an autonomous if not independent Lithuania under German patronage.[citation needed]
Cabinet
The people who were meant to be in the government:[11]
Prime Minister: Colonel
Kazys Škirpa (was prevented taking office and put under house arrest in Berlin)
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I believe the US Justice Department is considered "a reputable institution" if not though, this may well qualify as written by an expert since afaik it concerns their litigation