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v. t. e. Lithuanian Jewsand a German Wehrmachtsoldier during the Holocaust in Lithuania(June 24, 1941) 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.
The occupation of the Baltic states was a period of annexation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania begun by the Soviet Union in 1940, continued for three years by Nazi Germany after it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941, and finally resumed by the Soviet Union until its dissolution in 1991. The initial Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltic ...
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After World War I, Vilnius (Polish: Wilno) and the surrounding area were a disputed territory that was part of the Second Polish Republic (Wilno Voivodeship). During the invasion of Poland, the city was seized by the Soviet Union and later transferred to Lithuania under the terms of the Soviet–Lithuanian Mutual Assistance Treaty. It was captured by...
Wehrmacht
1. Southern flank of 3rd Panzer Army (Colonel-General Georg-Hans Reinhardt) 1.1. XXVI Corps (General Gerhard Matzky) 1.2. Garrison of Vilnius (Major-General Rainer Stahel) 2. Remnants of Fourth Army (General Kurt von Tippelskirch) 2.1. XXXIX Panzer Corps (General Dietrich von Saucken) 2.2. Sperrgruppe Weidling 2.3. 340th Volksgrenadier Division Theodor Tolsdorff
Red Army
1. 3rd Belorussian Front (General Ivan Chernyakhovsky) 1.1. 11th Guards Army (General Kuzma Galitsky) 1.2. 5th Army 1.3. 33rd Army (Lieutenant-General Vasily Kryuchenkin) 1.4. 39th Army 1.5. 31st Army 1.6. 5th Guards Tank Army (General Pavel Rotmistrov) 1.7. 1st Air Army
Chernyakhovsky ordered that his main mobile 'exploitation' forces, the 5th Guards Tank Army and 3rd Guards Cavalry Corps continue their advance from Minsk on 5 July in the direction of Vilnius, with the aim of reaching the city by the following day: they were to encircle Vilnius from the south and north respectively. The rifle divisions of 5th Army...
During the battle for the city itself, the Soviet 5th Army and 5th Guards Tank Army engaged the German garrison of "Fortress Vilnius", consisting of Grenadier Regiment 399 and Artillery Regiment 240 of the 170th Infantry Division, Grenadier Regiment 1067, a battalion from the 16th Parachute Regiment, the anti-tank battalion of the 256th Infantry Di...
While the German aim of holding Vilnius as a Fester Platz or fortress was not achieved, the tenacious defence made a contribution in stopping the Red Army's drive west for a few precious days: most importantly, it tied down the 5th Guards Tank Army, which had been instrumental in the initial successes of the Red Army during Operation Bagration. Thi...
Dunn, Walter S. (2000). Soviet Blitzkrieg: The Battle for White Russia, 1944. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers. ISBN 978-1-5558-7880-1.Glantz, David M.; Orenstein, Harold S., eds. (2001). Belorussia 1944: The Soviet General Staff Study. Routledge. ISBN 0714651028.- 5 July-13 July 1944(1 week and 1 day)
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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.
3 days ago · In the period from May 1942 to September 1944 more than 4,200,000 Jews were killed in such death camps as Auschwitz (Oświęcim), Treblinka, Belzec, Chełmno, Majdanek, and Sobibor. About 5,700,000 Jews died in the course of the Final Solution. execution during the Holocaust German troops executing a group of Poles.
World War II was a conflict that involved virtually every part of the world during 1939–45. The main combatants were the Axis powers (Germany, Italy, and Japan) and the Allies (France, Great Britain, the United States, the Soviet Union, and China). It was the bloodiest conflict, as well as the largest war, in human history.
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1 day ago · The campaign in Poland, 1939. The German conquest of Poland in September 1939 was the first demonstration in war of the new theory of high-speed armoured warfare that had been adopted by the Germans when their rearmament began. Poland was a country all too well suited for such a demonstration. Its frontiers were immensely long—about 3,500 ...
