Immediately after the establishment of German authority in the beginning of July 1941, the elimination of the Jewish and Roma population began, with a major mass killings taking place at Rumbula and elsewhere.
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Butkus joined the national partisans to fight against the Soviet forces until the Germans invaded the territory of Latvia.