1) The most important document to publish is Kazys Škirpa's original 260 page memoir <<“Kovok! Pastangos gelbėti Lietuvą" (Fight! Efforts to Rescue )>> (19 MB) from 1943 with <>. (32 MB) I purchased a digital copy at Lithuania's Central State Archive (LCVA).

See especially:

 <>, shown to Nazi strategist Peter Kleist on July 13, 1940, where Škirpa first promotes .  <>, shown to Peter Kleist on July 22, 1940, where Škirpa names and describes the Lithuanian Activist Front.  <>, the letter from Jonas Pyragius and the Voldemarists to Škirpa on August 23, 1940, which refers to their suggestions to SD officer Heinz Graefe.  <>, directed specifically to Jews, as Škirpa writes on page 136 in his memoir.

2) <> ( MB) I purchased digital copies at LCVA. Note, in particular, their discussion of Document 55, where Lithuania's top two diplomats Stasys Lozoraitis and Petras Klimas write in favor of ethnic cleansing.

Letters from the LCVA should be merged with a selection from the collection recently published by the VMU Lithuanian Emigration Institute, „Lietuvos diplomatų korespondencija (1940-1945 m.)“

3) Lietuvos Ypatingas Archyvas (Lithuanian Special Archive) has criminal files by the Soviets on dozens of Voldemarists and LAF members who they imprisoned. The archive has granted me permission to publish online files of Algirdas Sliesoraitis, Algirdas Voldemaras, Antanas Valiukėnas, Augustas Voldemaras, Emil Just, Ignas Vylius, Jonas Karutis, Juozas Pajaujis, Kazys Germanas, Klemensas Brunius, Mykolas Naujokaitis, Stasys Kviecinskas, Vytautas Mačiuika and Zenonas Blynas. At this time I share:

 the LAF proclamations which Mykolas Naujokaitis was caught with  Klemensas Brunius's personal narrative

Other files which should be published and translated include Pranas Giedraitis, Ignas Taunys, Jonas Vokietaitis, Juozas Surmas, Leonas Taunys-Kovas, Petras Kubiliūnas, Pranas Matiukas, Vincas Rastenis. Lithuania should work to acquire copies of Petras Kubiliūnas's file in Moscow. Their social network should be exhaustively documented.

Of special importance is the interrogation of Pranas Giedraitis, as published by KGB agent Boleslovas Baranauskas in his book „Hitlerininkų penktoji kolona Lietuvoje“. Giedraitis describes courses in March 1941 where LAF agents were taught to organize nationalists to kill all of Lithuania's Jews.

4) Lithuanian periodicals during the Nazi-occupation should be made available through www.epaveldas.lt Here is what I have photographed from:

 <<Į Laisvę>> () Note the first uncensored issue edited by Ambrazevičius, Ivinskis, Girnius. Note also philosopher Juozas Girnius's articles on The Conceptual Foundations of National Socialism starting August 30, 1941. See also <>.  <> ()  <> (Šiauliai)

5) I commend the Lithuanian History Institute and Gediminas Rudis for publishing Zenonas Blynas's diary. This should be made available online for easy searching as has been done for books by Škirpa and Brazaitis by http://www.partizanai.org Likewise, memoirs should be republished online by

 <> - We know him from Blynas's diary as a champion of genocide.  <> - He corroborates that Kaunas LAF asked Škirpa not send literature.  <> - He describes the Gleisgarben refugee camp and the LAF / Abwehr network. Links Vytautas Reivytis and Schweizer, two key organizers of in Lithuania.  <>, <>, <>, <>, <>.

6) The link should be made clear between the <> written by Maceina, Škirpa and Valiukėnas in Berlin and the speeches given by LAF leaders in Kaunas.

 Leonas Prapuolenis's speech to Renteln on August 6, 1941 includes large excerpts from the LAF program including the infamous revoking of hospitality to Lithuania's Jewish minority. It was signed by the entire LAF-in-Kaunas leadership.

7) The discussion in June, 1939 by Joachim von Ribbentrop and Reinhard Heydrich of about Pranas Germantas-Meškauskas's request for 100,000 litas to overthrow Lithuania's government and organize pogroms.

8) <>, which includes his impressions of Kazys Škirpa and Pranas Germantas-Meškauskas. Also, Smetona's speech at the Cleveland Jewish Center in 1943 where he reveals his conspiracy with Lithuania's leading Jews to facilitate the emigration of poor Jews to Palestine and the retention of wealthy Jews in Lithuania.

9) Lithuanian security police files from 1938-1940 for context on:

 Voldemarists and other political parties  antisemitic crimes.

10) All information related to the Voldemarist coup, a key moment in the Holocaust, in which they replaced Kaunas military commandant Jurgis Bobelis.

 Files of the Kaunas military commandant in 1941.  Prapuolenis's article about the coup and the unpublished part 2 in the Lithuanian Emigration Institutes' archive.  The open letter by Pyragius, Taunys and Kviecinskas defending their honor.  Testimony by Gerardas Binkis, Kazys Bobelis, and LAF participants interviewed by Algimantas Liekis that the real reason for the coup was that Jurgis Bobelis was keeping the Voldemarists from executing their plans for Lithuania's Jews.

11) All documents related to the Lithuanian Nationalist Party, which the Voldemarists created in their efforts to collaborate with Nazi Germany. Saulius Sužiedėlis has branded the LNP as „an organized gang of criminals“. I note that Jonas Noreika was the leader of the LNP for all of Žemaitija. The Lithuanian Special Archive have granted me permission to publish:

 LYA, f.3377, ap.55, b.36 Lithuanian Nationalist Party activity in bourgeouis Lithuania  LYA, f.3377, ap.55, b.37 The Lithuanian Nationalist Party's relations with other bourgeouis nationalist organizations from 1927 to 1946.

1927-1946 metais

 LYA, f.3377, ap.55, b.38 Lithuanian Nationalist Party activity during the Hitlerist occupation.

12) Video and written testimony of Litvaks and others collected by , the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and others. In particular, Riva Lozansky's memoir should be published in Lithuanian.

13) Documents by Mykolas Krupavičius of VLIKas (the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania) should also be published for context:

 His much acclaimed protest letter with Kazys Grinius and Jonas Pranas Aleksa in 1942 which actually contains only half a sentence about the Holocaust, by way of an aside: The Lithuanian nation cannot approve of such means, just as it does not approve of the means taken against Lithuania's Jews.  His Pro Memoria regarding his November 29, 1945 meeting with the Jewish committee in which shows how the .  His assurance that Holocaust criminals would be brought to justice in a free and independent Lithuania.

14) The history of distortion by Lithuanian activists (as well as by the Soviets) and its uncovering should be exhaustively documented.

 The manuscript shown above is from Lithuania's national Mažvydas library. It was returned to Kazys Škirpa by editor Jonas Kardelis after publication in 1951 in the Lithuanian-Canadian weekly „Nepriklausoma Lietuva“. The letters „LAF“ are in Škirpa's handwriting. The famous 16th article of the LAF program, revoking hospitality to the Jews, has been crossed out and the subsequent articles have all been renumbered.  The Lithuanian Emigration Institute includes a letter from Stasys Yla to Juozas Girnius in 1979:

You have probably heard and perhaps read of what kind of history K.Škirpa included me in his "Uprising". I am made out as one of the first participants of LAF when nothing such was the case. It's good that I have letters which we exchanged before his book came out. Perhaps one day I will publish them and society will see that it is an unbelievable use of my name solely because along with all the rest there needed to be "and one priest".

 The revelation by Saulius Sužiedėlis in a three-part interview in Akiračiai in 1991-1992 about such deceptions by Škirpa, Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis and others.  The outrageous protests in 1995 by Bronys Raila, Mykolas Naujokaitis, Liudas Reivydas and Pilypas Narutis that the LAF documents published in Laisvės kovų archyvas were, in Raila's words, „probably the work of Soviet or some sort of Semitic provocateurs“.

15) In general, the way that Lithuania's anti-Soviet rebellion has been viewed differently over time should be documented.

 Bronys Raila and Jurgis Valiulis in 1946 wrote critically of LAF-in-Kaunas and the Provisional Government as a Christian Democratic clique unlike the nonpartisan LAF-in-Berlin.  Kazys Škirpa was invited to speak in 1956 on Lithuania's Independence Day in Detroit not as Lithuania's former Prime Minister but simply as a representative of the Santarieciai-Liaudininkai movement. Similarly, he chose to describe himself as the First Volunteer in Lithuania's War of Independence of 1918-1920.  The idea that the 1941 anti-Soviet rebellion had lasting significance as regards Lithuania's self- determination seems to have developed through the journal Į Laisvę, founded in 1953 with editor Juozas Brazaitis, whose articles are available through epaveldas.lt

16) The evolution of the conceit that „ retaliated against Jews“ should be exhaustively sourced and documented to show it for the myth that it is. An ongoing record of anti-semitic provocations should be publicly collected so that we could compare, for example, Bronys Raila's unapologetic question, Why have the Jews never apologized to us? in his 1995 classic <>, with the very same question as asked Eglė Wittig-Marcinkevičiūtė in the September 2015 issue of Kultūros barai.

17) Digital copies should be made of boxes 3, 5, 20 and 21 in the Škirpa archive at the American Lithuanian Cultural archives in Putnam, Connecticut. His two grandchildren should be contacted to ask if they have any of his papers. Similarly the Reivytis, Matulionis and other families should be contacted.

18) Lithuanian historians should visit German archives to find documents related to the Voldemarists, the Lithuanian Activist Front and their Nazi German contacts, especially Heinz Graefe, Peter Kleist, Kurt Graebe, Richard Schweizer and Martin Kurmies.