Editing Home Army (section)

===Lithuanians===
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[[File:Aleksander Krzyzanowski.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Aleksander Krzyżanowski]], [[Wilno]]-region Home Army commander]]
Although the [[Resistance in Lithuania during World War II|Lithuanian]] and Polish resistance movements had common enemies—Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union—they began working together only in 1944–1945, after the Soviet reoccupation, when both fought the Soviet occupiers.<ref>{{in lang|lt}} [[Arūnas Bubnys]]. [http://www.genocid.lt/Leidyba/7/arunas7.htm ''Lietuvių ir lenkų pasipriešinimo judėjimai 1942–1945&nbsp;m.: sąsajos ir skirtumai''] (Lithuanian and Polish resistance movements 1942–1945), 30 January 2004</ref> The main obstacle to unity was a long-standing territorial dispute over the Vilnius Region.<ref name="Petersen 2002" />

The [[Lithuanian Activist Front]] (''Lietuvos Aktyvistų Frontas'', or LAF){{r|Piotrowski|p=163}} cooperated with Nazi operations against Poles during the German occupation. In autumn 1943, the Home Army carried retaliatory out operations against the Nazis' Lithuanian supporters, mainly the Lithuanian ''[[Schutzmannschaft]]'' battalions, the [[Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force]], and the [[Lithuanian Secret Police]],<ref name="Snyder 2003" /> killing hundreds of mostly Lithuanian policemen and other collaborators during the first half of 1944. In response, the [[Ypatingasis būrys|Lithuanian Sonderkommando]], who had already killed hundreds of Polish civilians since 1941 (particularly the [[Ponary massacre]]),{{r|Piotrowski|pp=168–169}} intensified their operations against the Poles.

In April 1944, the Home Army in the Vilnius Region attempted to open negotiations with [[Povilas Plechavičius]], commander of the [[Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force]], and proposed a non-aggression pact and cooperation against Nazi Germany.<ref name="Piskunowicz 1996" /> The Lithuanian side refused and demanded that the Poles either leave the Vilnius region (disputed between Poles and Lithuanians) or subordinate themselves to the Lithuanians' struggle against the Soviets.<ref name="Piskunowicz 1996" /> In the May 1944 [[Battle of Murowana Oszmianka]], the Home Army dealt a substantial blow to the Nazi-sponsored [[Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force]],{{r|Piotrowski|pp=165–166}}<ref name="Boradyn" /> which resulted in a low-level civil war between anti-Nazi Poles and pro-Nazi Lithuanians that was encouraged by the German authorities;<ref name="Snyder 2003" /> it culminated in the June 1944 massacres of Polish and Lithuanian civilians in the villages of [[Glinciszki massacre|Glitiškės]] (Glinciszki) and [[Dubingiai massacre|Dubingiai]] (Dubinki) respectively.{{r|Piotrowski|pp=168–169}}

Postwar assessments of the Home Army's activities in Lithuania have been controversial. In 1993, the Home Army's activities there were investigated by a special Lithuanian government commission. Only in recent years have Polish and Lithuanian historians been able to approach consensus, though still differing in their interpretations of many events.<ref name="GW 2004" /><ref name="Dovile" />