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The Germans lacked concern for the fate of the Baltic states, and initiated the evacuation of the Baltic Germans. Between October and December 1939 the Germans evacuated 13,700 people from Estonia and 52,583 from Latvia, and resettled them in Polish territories incorporated into Nazi Germany.
For a brief period, Nazi Germany occupied the Baltic states after it invaded the Soviet Union in 1941. The initial Soviet invasion and occupation of the Baltic states began in June 1940 under the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact, made between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany in August 1939 before the outbreak of World War II.
Though initially having bases only in the eastern corner of the Gulf of Finland, the Red Banner Baltic Fleet was the largest naval power in the Baltic Sea. As World War II progressed, it was able to make use of naval bases in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, first under the terms of agreements forced by the Soviet Union in autumn 1939, then by ...
A formation of Spitfires shortly before World War II. This is a list of World War II battles encompassing land, naval, and air engagements as well as campaigns, operations, defensive lines and sieges. Campaigns generally refer to broader strategic operations conducted over a large bit of territory and over a long period.
15 June 1941, The Governor of New York, Herbert Lehman, declares 15 June to be Baltic States Day. 22 June 1941 Germany enacts Operation Barbarossa, invades Soviet Union. In Soviet historiography, start of World War II as the Great Patriotic War. 24–25 June 1941 Soviet authorities massacre political prisoners in Rainiai, Lithuania.
Naval battles of the Torstenson War (3 P) Pages in category "Naval battles and operations in the Baltic Sea" The following 7 pages are in this category, out of 7 total.
Battle of Someri; Soviet Baltic Sea campaign in 1945; Soviet Baltic Sea submarine campaign in 1941; Soviet Baltic Sea submarine campaign in 1942; Soviet Baltic Sea submarine campaign in 1943; Soviet Baltic Sea submarine campaign in 1944; Soviet Navy surface raids on Western Black Sea; Battle of the St. Lawrence; Operation Stonewall
World War II shipwrecks in the Baltic Sea (103 P) Pages in category "Baltic Sea operations of World War II" The following 18 pages are in this category, out of 18 total.