This unit, or at least its headquarters, were deployed in
Kaunas from April to mid-June, judging from the orders issued to the Training Units and the 258th Battalion. According to other sources, the battalion was in
Prienai in May 1944. Two other battalions were deployed at Prienai barracks: one German, the other Lithuanian. The 258th battalion included about 250 soldiers, whose uniform was blue Wehrmacht infantry
uniforms.
April On 1 April 1944, captain Albinas Lastauskas, the commander of the young soldiers' company, together with 21 other soldiers, was sent to the
259th Lithuanian Police Battalion, that was forming in Prienai. Lastauskas' position was taken over by non-commissioned officer Jurgis Normantas. The young soldiers' company, in terms of training supervision, was under the training company's commander. The training company's lieutenant Nikodemas Reikalas was given special holidays for May 28-June 9. The 258th Battalion included one construction and one assembly company. The assembly company was commanded by lieutenant
Petras Polekauskas. On April 1, the assembly company received lieutenant Jonas Paliulionis, 55 NCOs and soldiers from the 8th Battalion. On May 31, lieutenant Vytautas Andriuškevičius, also from the 8th Battalion, was also sent to the assembly company. On April 4, by the order of captain Antanas Ruzgys, commander of the Training Unit, 245 soldiers of the construction company were sent to the 259th Battalion. On April 26, the Commander of the
SiPo and
SD ordered the arrests of Valerijonas Janulis, the 258th Battalion's staff junior non-commissioned officer, and private Antanas Plečkaitis. They were to be given over to the
Gestapo.
May On May 23, captain Viktoras Jarašiūnas from the
2nd Battalion, was appointed to serve in the battalion headquarters. Four days later, on May 27, captain Vladas Patašius from the
253th Battalion was temporarily appointed the Battalion commander's adjutant. For unknown reasons, the assembly company's private Antanas Strimaitis was arrested by the German police and imprisoned in the Kaunas Hard Labour Prison. On May 29, the privates Kazys Urbonas, Albertas Katilevičius, Kazys Paškevičius and Edvardas Lileika left the battalion.
June At the beginning of June, the 258th Battalion was moved to Kaunas, where the soldiers guarded the military warehouses. At summer's beginning, one platoon from the battalion served at the 11th resistance point, which guarded the railway section near
Kazlų Rūda, the railway station and the railway bridge. There were 16 soldiers armed with 1 light machine gun, 1 light mortar and rifles at this point of resistance. As the
Red Army occupied more and more of Lithuania, the battalion retreated to
Tilsit. At the end of July, the 258th Battalion was disbanded in Tilsit. == Aftermath ==