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Lithuanian Activist Front or LAF (Lithuanian: Lietuvos aktyvistų frontas) formed 1941, aided the German occupation
of Lithuania. LAF's manifesto-type essay
"What Are the Activists Fighting for?" states:
"The Lithuanian Activist Front, by restoring the new Lithuania, is determined to carry out an immediate and fundamental purging of the Lithuanian nation
and its land of Jews, parasites and monsters...[this] shall be one of the most essential preconditions for starting a new life..."
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In 1944 the Nazi authorities created 20,000-strong Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force under General Povilas Plechavičius to combat Soviet partisans led by Antanas Sniečkus.
Out of the Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force arose the partisan forces
which are now being celebrated as heroes. These partisan forces would not accept Jews -- few that there were by 1944 -- as members.
It is important to note that
On February 16, 1949 the Joint Staff of the Union of Lithuanian Freedom Fighters signed a declaration on the future of Lithuania,
that would "grant equal rights for every citizen, based on freedom and democratic values". It also declared that Communist party to be a criminal organization.
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