June Uprising in Lithuania
The June Uprising was a brief period of the history of Lithuania in late June 1941 between the first Soviet and the Nazi occupations.
German advances from June to August 1941
Soviet political leader (without military shoulder straps) and the puppet People's Seimas member (with red rose in his jacket lapel) announces to the Lithuanian People's Army non-commissioned officers that "soon you will become members of the Red Army" in Kaunas, 1940
The 1940 Conference of Lithuanian Plenipotentiaries in Rome, which laid foundations for the armed resistance
Soviet POWs under Lithuanian insurgent control in Eastern Lithuania
Lithuanian Activist Front
The Lithuanian Activist Front or LAF was a Lithuanian underground resistance organization established in 1940 after the Soviets occupied Lithuania. Its goal was to free Lithuania and regain its independence. The LAF planned and executed the June uprising and established the short-lived Provisional Government of Lithuania, which disbanded after a few weeks. The Nazi authorities banned the LAF in September 1941. Its role in the three World War II invasions of Lithuania and the massacre of 95% of Lithuania's Jewish population remains ambiguous and the topic of conflicting information and opinion.
Leonas Prapuolenis, commander of the June Uprising in Lithuania, later arrested and sent to Dachau concentration camp
LAF activists inspect a T-38 tank from the Red Army in Kaunas
Lithuanian activists in Kaunas on June 25, 1941
Soviet poststamp with LAF overprint Independent Lithuania 1941 06 23
