Dubingiai massacre
| Dubingiai massacre | |
|---|---|
| Part of World War II | |
Dubingiai Dubingiai (Lithuania) | |
| Location | 55°04′00″N 25°27′00″E / 55.06667°N 25.45000°E Dubingiai, Generalbezirk Litauen, Reichskommissariat Ostland (now in Lithuania) |
| Date | 23 June 1944 |
| Target | Lithuanian civilians |
Attack type | Massacre (war crime) |
| Deaths | 27 (In Dubingiai) 70-100 in Dubingiai and Neighboring villages |
| Victims | Lithuanians and Lithuanian Auxiliary Police men |
| Perpetrators | Home Army 5th Wilno Brigade |
No. of participants | ~50 |
| Motive | Retaliation for Glinciszki massacre and scaring the Lithuanians |
The Dubingiai massacre was a mass murder of Lithuanian civilians committed by the Polish Home Army (AK) in the town of Dubingiai and its surroundings on 23 June 1944.
The Dubingiai massacre started a wider Polish Home Army (AK) operation in which units beyond the 5th Brigade were involved. By the end of June 1944, a total of 70–100 Lithuanians were killed in Dubingiai and the neighbouring villages of Joniškis, Inturkė, Bijutiškis, and Giedraičiai. While Nazi collaborators were ostensibly the prime targets, the victims also included the elderly, children, and infants of 4 and 11 months.
The AK's 5th Wilno Brigade committed the massacre in reprisal for the Glinciszki (Glitiškės) massacre of Polish civilians done on 20 June 1944 by the 258th Lithuanian Police Battalion. Further conflicts between Lithuanian and Polish units were prevented by the Soviet capture of Vilnius in mid-July 1944.