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In his 1950 in the U.S. for the first time published in Lithuanian "partisans" says the author, and Lithuanian resistance fighters Luksa Juozas (1921-1951) in vivid scenes from everyday life the Lithuanian partisans. Of their struggle against the overpowering Soviet adversary, who wants to stamp out with all means available to him. Of a struggle for a free Lithuania, against Sovietization, collectivization and deportation of large sections of the Lithuanian population to Siberia. But of encounters, friendships, education of the underground fighters. All this from the perspective of time, still fresh reports from one of the most important Lithuanian resistance fighters. An exciting piece narrated in German-speaking barely known European post-war history.
the author:
Juozas Luksa in 1921, born in the village at Juodbūdis Prienai in a peasant family. After completing high school he studied architecture in Kaunas, education could not finish due to the turmoil of World War II. While still a student he participated in anti-Soviet and anti-Nazi resistance activities. Early in 1946 he joined as an active fighter (Code name "Daumantas"), the Lithuanian partisan movement. Luksa was instrumental in establishing the work of the Partisan Press Tauras district in the southwest part of Lithuania and recorded as an editor of two partisan newspapers. On behalf of the guerrilla leadership, he broke with his comrades twice that of the Soviets hermetically sealed-off border with Poland. The second time he fought on through to the west. Among others, he wore a memorandum to the UN and a letter to the Pope with the Lithuanians themselves.
1948 to 1950 he wrote in Paris his autobiographical novel "partisan" and sought contact with Western intelligence agencies. He hoped by the West for military support the freedom struggle of the Lithuanians. In Paris, the Lithuanian immigrant learned Luksa Nijolė Bražėnaite, whom he married in late July 1950 at Tübingen.
In October 1950 he jumped with a parachute over western Lithuania. After another year of partisan warfare and information gathering for Western intelligence agencies in September 1951 he was killed in an ambush life.
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