Defense Corps of Homeland

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Tėvynės Apsaugos Rinktinė (TAR), also known as the Armed Forces of Defense, is a Voluntary Collaborative Armed Formation of Lithuanians serving in the German Army at the end of World War II.

In the summer of 1944 on the initiative of 2 Lithuanian officers captain. I. Jatulis and Capt. Jonas Čėsny was formed voluntary armed formation under the name Tėvynės Apsaugos Rinktinė. It was composed of Lithuanians from these collaborating police and military units, which had not yet been sent to Germany or dismantled. The corps consisted of two regiments, commanded by Lithuanian officers. At the head of the corps was the German Colonel (then Major General) Hellmuth Mäder. It is interesting that the 2nd Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus served in the 2nd Regiment. TAR troops took defensive positions in the Papile village. On October 7, 1944, the front line was interrupted by the Red Army. Most of the corps was destroyed in the vicinity of Mažeikiai during the retreat of German troops. Remnants retreated with German troops to East Prussia, where they formed a Lithuanian battalion of eight members of the Soviet Union. He was stationed on the Baltic coast. Then he found himself in the so-called. The Kurland. The wounded soldiers of the battalion were evacuated to Lübeck, and the rest were killed in heavy fighting with the Red Army or in guerrilla warfare.

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