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The military occupationof Lithuania by Nazi Germanylasted from the German invasion of the Soviet Unionon June 22, 1941, to the end of the Battle of Memelon January 28, 1945. At first the Germans were welcomed as liberators from the repressive Soviet regimewhich had occupied Lithuania.
It lasted from 5 July to 13 July 1944 and ended with a Soviet victory. During the offensive, Soviet forces encircled and captured the city of Vilnius; this phase is sometimes referred to as the Battle of Vilnius. However, 3,000 German soldiers of the encircled garrison managed to break out with their commander, Reiner Stahel.
- 5 July-13 July 1944(1 week and 1 day)
- Soviet victory
US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Under the terms of the German-Soviet Pact, Vilna, along with the rest of eastern Poland, was occupied by Soviet forces in late September 1939. In October 1939, the Soviet Union transferred the Vilna region to Lithuania. The population of the city was 200,000 at this time, including over 55,000 Jews.
Of approximately 208,000–210,000 Jews at the time of the Nazi invasion, an estimated 190,000 to 195,000 were killed before the end of World War II, most of them between June and December 1941. More than 95% of Lithuania's Jewish population was murdered over the three-year German occupation, [ 1 ] a more complete destruction than befell any other country in the Holocaust . [ 2 ]
Reoccupation of Vilna. In June 1944, the Soviet Union launched a massive offensive against the German army in eastern Europe. Soviet forces reoccupied Vilna in July 1944, after bitter street fighting with the German garrison. They then continued on toward Kovno, the capital of Lithuania. This Soviet footage depicts the battle for Vilna and the ...
Lithuania lost ~8% of its pre-WW2 inhabitants due to Nazi actions and ~32% due to Soviet actions (until the year 1953), some 40% in total (1,15 million out of 3 million). 1/3 to 1/2 of this number were killed. Well over 90% of the victims were civilians. Statistics of people lost to Lithuania 1940-1959, both per event and per perpetrator.
May 13, 2016 · In June and July 1941, detachments of German Einsatzgruppen (mobile killing units), together with Lithuanian auxiliaries, began murdering the Jews of Lithuania. By the end of August 1941, most Jews in rural Lithuania had been shot. By November 1941, the Germans also massacred most of the Jews who had been concentrated in ghettos in the larger ...
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