sonunigam (Love Geek): Meanwhile, the Lithuanian Activist Front, founded by Lithuanian nationalist émigrés in Berlin, disseminatedanti-semitic literature in Lithuania. Among other claims, the propaganda blamed Jews for the Soviet occupation. *
06-01-11 - 05:13:44

sonunigam (Love Geek): Following Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, Soviet forces fled from Kaunas. Both before and after the German occupation of the city on June 25, the anti-Communist Nazi organized insurgents began to attack Jews, blaming them for the Soviet repressions, especially along Jurbarko and Kriščiukaičio streets. They murdered more than 3,800 Jews and took hundreds more to the Lietūkis garage and killed them there. *
06-01-11 - 05:14:24

sonunigam (Love Geek): The Nazis eventually established the Kaunas Ghetto, the Jews of which by the end of the war would have been almost completely murdered. *
06-01-11 - 05:14:57

sonunigam (Love Geek):
Soviet Re-ocupation
Beginning in 1944, the Red Army began offensives which eventually took back all three of the Baltic states. Kaunas again became the major center of resistance against Soviet regime. From the very start of the Lithuanian partisans war, the most important partisans districts were based around Kaunas. *
06-01-11 - 05:16:16

sonunigam (Love Geek): Although guerrilla warfare ended at the time of 1953, Lithuanian opposition to Soviet rule did not. In 1956 people in the Kaunas region supported the uprising in Hungary by rioting. On All Souls' Day in 1956, the first public anti-Soviet protest rally took place in Kaunas: citizens burned candles in the Kaunas military cemetery and sang national songs, resulting clashes with the Militsiya. *
06-01-11 - 05:17:18