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Kaunas pogrom in German-occupied Lithuania, June 1941. Photograph attributed to Wilhelm Gunsilius. [18]On June 22, 1941, the territory of the Lithuanian SSR was invaded by two advancing German army groups: Army Group North, which took over western and northern Lithuania, and Army Group Centre, which took over most of the Vilnius Region.
Map of Vilna Ghetto (small ghetto, in olive-green) In order to pacify the predominantly poorer Jewish quarter in the Vilnius Old Town and force the rest of the more affluent Jewish residents into the new German-envisioned ghetto, the Nazis staged – as a pretext – the Great Provocation incident on 31 August 1941, led by SS Einsatzkommando 9 Oberscharführer Horst Schweinberger under orders ...
Lithuania regained its independence in 1918 after the collapse of the Russian Empire. As pre-war tensions rose in Europe, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact and divided Eastern Europe into spheres of influence. Subsequently, Lithuania was occupied by the Soviet Union in June 1940.
Territory west of the Šešupė River: Lithuanian territory; requested by Nazi Germany in the German-Soviet Boundary and Friendship Treaty on September 28, 1939; occupied by the Soviet Union on June 15, 1940; Nazi Germany relinquished its claims for a compensation in the amount of $7.5 million on January 10, 1941
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During the interwar, the Vilnius Region was disputed between the Second Polish Republic and Lithuania. 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 the Germans in June 1941.
Eastern Front, June 1941-December 1941 Eastern Front, August 1943-December 1944. During World War II, Lithuania was occupied twice by the Soviet Union (1940–1941; post-1944) and once by Nazi Germany (1941–1944).
Lithuania in World War II — the history of Lithuania from 15 June 1940 to 7 May 7 1945. See also the preceding Category:History of Lithuania (1918–1940) and the succeeding Category:Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic