Provisional Government of Lithuania
The Provisional Government of Lithuania was an attempted provisional government to form an independent Lithuanian 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.
Session of the Provisional Government of Lithuania under the chairmanship by Juozas Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis in Kaunas, 1941.
Juozas Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis, acting prime minister of the Provisional Government
Front page of the first issue of the newspaper Į laisvę [lt] ("To Liberty") with the declaration of independence
Memorial plaque on the wall of the former radiophone building in Kaunas
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