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...
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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...
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history of Estonia during World War II and following the occupation by Nazi Germany. According to the Estonian point of view, the occupation of Estonia...
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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...
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The German occupation of Luxembourg in World War II began in May 1940 after the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was invaded by Nazi Germany. Although Luxembourg...
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After the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Baltic states were under military occupation by Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1944. Initially, many Estonians...
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Ostland, an administrative subdivision of Nazi Germany. Anyone not racially acceptable or who opposed the German occupation, as well as those who had cooperated...
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At the outset of World War II in September 1939, Denmark declared itself neutral, but that neutrality did not prevent Nazi Germany from occupying the country...
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sought refuge in Ottawa, Canada until after the war. German occupation lasted in some areas until the German surrender in May 1945. Active resistance, at...
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The occupation ended with the surrender of Germany at the end of World War II. During the German occupation, between 294,000 to 320,000 citizens were...
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occupied German territory during the later stages of World War II, mass rapes of women took place both in connection with combat operations and during the...
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'Land without a Quisling': Patterns of Cooperation with the Nazi German Occupation Regime in Poland during World War II". Slavic Review. 64 (4): 711–46....
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During the later stages of World War II and the post-war period, Germans and Volksdeutsche fled and were expelled from various Eastern and Central European...
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territorial acquisition for Germany before World War II, producing a major downturn in Lithuania's economy and escalating pre-war tensions for Europe as a...
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until the end of World War I on 11 November 1918, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg was under full occupation by the German Empire. The German government justified...
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The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to...
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the terms of the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact. Following a brief occupation by Nazi Germany after the Nazis waged war on the Soviet Union, Lithuania was again...
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Strategic Realities of World War II, HarperCollins, 2004, ISBN 0-06-000977-2, page 88 Roberts 2006, p. 53 Senn, Alfred Erich, Lithuania 1940 : revolution...
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This is a timeline of declarations of war during World War II. A declaration of war is a formal act by which one nation goes to war against another. The...
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state in the last days of the first Soviet occupation and the first weeks of the German occupation of Lithuania during World War II in 1941. It was secretly...
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The German occupation of Belgium (French: Occupation allemande, Dutch: Duitse bezetting) of World War I was a military occupation of Belgium by the forces...
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one of the largest military powers to come under occupation as part of the Western Front in World War II. The Western Front was a military theatre of World...
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home front during World War II was a significant part of the war effort for all participants and had a major impact on the outcome of the war. Governments...
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both from close air support of ground forces and from tactical air power. During World War II, many military strategists of air power believed that air...
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collapse of the German Empire on November 11, 1918. During the occupation, 130,000 Belarusians were killed. On the Russian-German front, the war began with...
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The occupation of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II (1939–1945) began with the Invasion of Poland in September 1939, and...
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played a significant role in World War II. Some of the technologies used during the war were developed during the interwar years of the 1920s and 1930s, much...
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The history of Bulgaria during World War II encompasses an initial period of neutrality until 1 March 1941, a period of alliance with the Axis Powers...
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invasion of China and the Japanese occupation of the Philippines all contributed to well over half of all of the civilian deaths in World War II as well...
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During World War II, the Kingdom of Hungary was a member of the Axis powers. In the 1930s, the Kingdom of Hungary relied on increased trade with Fascist...
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