Algirdas Klimaitis[nb 1] (1910[1] – 29 August 1988)[2] was a Lithuanian paramilitary commander who was born in Kaunas and died in Hamburg.
[2] When Nazi Germany occupied Lithuania in June 1941, at the start of Operation Barbarossa, Klimaitis formed a military unit of roughly 600 members, which was not subordinate to the Lithuanian Activist Front or the Provisional Government of Lithuania,[3] and engaged in firefights with the Soviet army for control of Kaunas.
[4] On the night of 25–26 June, Kaunas pogrom led by Klimaitis' unit was instigated by Franz Walter Stahlecker, commanding officer of Einsatzgruppe A.
[3] The murder of Slobodka's rabbi, Rav Zalman Osovsky, is attributed to Jonas Klimaitis's gang.
Hamburg Police launched an investigation, but Klimaitis died in 1988,[7] before the case could be brought to trial.