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The Lithuanian Territorial Defense Force (abbreviated LTDF; Lithuanian: Lietuvos vietinė rinktinė, LVR) [a] was a short-lived Lithuanian volunteer military unit created with the active involvement of the anti-Nazi Lithuanian resistance during the German occupation of Lithuania during World War II. [1] The LTDF was disbanded one and a half ...
During the World War II, Lithuania was invaded by both Nazis and Soviets, which eventually concluded in Soviet occupation. The Lithuanian Armed Forces transformed into the Lithuanian People's Army in 1940 under the People's Government of Lithuania. [22] Despite Soviet deportations from Lithuania, armed Lithuanian resistance lasted until the 1950s.
The Fatherland Defense Force (Lithuanian: Tėvynės apsaugos rinktinė or TAR) or Kampfgruppe Mäder (‹See Tfd› German: Kampfgruppe Mäder) was a short-lived military unit hastily formed in northwestern Lithuania towards the end of World War II to combat approaching Soviet forces. Formed from local Lithuanians, the unit was directly ...
e. Lithuanian Jews and a German Wehrmacht soldier during the Holocaust in Lithuania (June 24, 1941) The military occupation of Lithuania by Nazi Germany lasted from the German invasion of the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, to the end of the Battle of Memel on January 28, 1945. At first the Germans were welcomed as liberators from the repressive ...
e. Lithuanian partisans (Lithuanian: Lietuvos partizanai) were partisans who waged guerrilla warfare in Lithuania against the Soviet Union in 1944–1953. Similar anti-Soviet resistance groups, also known as Forest Brothers and cursed soldiers, fought against Soviet rule in Estonia, Latvia and Poland. An estimated total of 30,000 Lithuanian ...
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This is a list of formations of the Lithuanian Army in September 1939. At the very start of World War II in Europe on September 1, Lithuanian Army had a total of 22,508 serving in its ranks. [1] On 16 September 1939, the Lithuanian government decided to partially mobilize the Lithuanian Army, which began the following day.
v. t. e. 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). Resistance took many forms. During the occupations, there arose parallel resistance movements in Lithuania that had ...