Tasked with supporting Army Group North in its advance through the Baltic states towards Leningrad, the unit began combat ... On 24 June 1941, Kittel claimed his first two aerial victories, two Tupolev SB-2 bombers. His tally had risen to 19 by May 1942 ... bis 5.12.1941 [The Fighter Units of the German Air Force 1934 to 1945-Part 6/II-Operation "BARBAROSSA"-Action in the East-22 ... Dezember 1941-Die Ergänzungsjagdgruppen-Einsatz 1941 bis zur Auflösung Anfang 1942 [The Fighter Units of the German Air Force ...
On July 18, 1940, the arrests of scouts began in all the occupied Baltic states. Three lieutenants were the first to be ... On 7 July 1940, Antanas Sniečkus signed a plan for the liquidation of the so-called anti-state parties and other governing ... On 30 July 1941, the death penalty was executed in the Butyrka prison. According to Anušauskas, the death penalties were ... In 1932-1939, Dulksnys lectured at the Higher Officers' Courses and Higher Military School. Dulksnys wrote articles for the ...
ISBN 978-1-59114-329-1. Hough, William J.H. (10 September 2019). "The Annexation of the Baltic States and Its Effect on the ... Russian State Military Archive. Российский государственный военный архив (РГВА) [Russian State Military Archive] (in Russian). ... In 2013, Pavel Petrov stated that the Russian State Military Archive has a database confirming 167,976 killed or missing along ... He stated the objective as being to secure Finland from being used as a staging ground by means of regime change. Others argue ...
Both the Soviet Union, which invaded the Baltic States and Poland according to the secret protocols of the German-Soviet pact, ... United States, Department of State, 1968, Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776- ... of a State against the territory of another State or the use of any weapons by a State against the territory of another State ... The use of armed forces of one State which are within the territory of another State with the agreement of the receiving State ...
Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea. The company stated that keeping the ships in this area increased operational flexibility and ... On 4 December 1939 she was in an east coast convoy in the North Sea when she suffered an explosion caused by either a torpedo ... On 19 November 1941 she was involved in a collision off West Hartlepool with the 744 GRT coaster SS Gateshead and sank about 7 ... On 11 November 1941 she survived an attack by enemy aircraft off Yarmouth. ...
The USSR annexed the Baltic states, further cutting off the possibilities for Jews seeking to escape Europe. The Japanese ... David Kranzler states Japan's position was ultimately pro-Jewish. During the six months following the Five Minister's ... Methods of attracting both Jewish and American favor were to include the sending of a delegation to the United States, to ... Collections Search - United States Holocaust Memorial Museum". Tokayer, p. 220. Wasserstein, Bernard, Secret War in Shanghai: ...
Lithuania was the first Baltic state to assert state continuity and the first Soviet Republic to declare full independence from ... While Germany was conducting its military campaign in Western Europe in May and June 1940, the USSR invaded the Baltic states. ... ISBN 92-64-02261-9. O'Connor, Kevin (2003). The history of the Baltic States. Greenwood Publishing Group. ISBN 0-313-32355-0. ... marking 50 years of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact and aiming to draw the world's attention to the occupation of the Baltic states ...
... was one of six Soviet Krim-class ocean liners during the late 1920s built for the Black Sea State Shipping Company. ... Ukraina was one of the four ships in the class that were constructed in 1928 at the Baltic Works shipyard in Leningrad. After ... Ships built at the Baltic Shipyard, Ships sunk by German aircraft, World War II passenger ships of the Soviet Union, Maritime ... During the Second World War, she participated in the Siege of Odessa in 1941 and the Siege of Sevastopol in 1942. She was sunk ...
"Baltic States Are Pushing NATO for More Than Just a Tripwire Against Russia". Foreign Policy. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 28 July ... The Baltic States requested their NATO allies to increase the military presence in the region. In 2023, the military ... Both countries are members of the Council of the Baltic Sea States, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ( ... Germany recognized the independence of Lithuania and the other two Baltic States on 27 August 1991. In the following period, ...
The Soviets retook the LSSR during the Baltic Operation. The LSSR regained its independence in 1990 before other Baltic states ... The Empire of Japan had been creating puppet states in China since 1932 after the Mukden Incident. A. Puppet states in Asia ... but this led to nothing more than the creation of the puppet state. A second factor in the creation of the puppet state was the ... Puppet States. Trafford. p. 369. ISBN 978-1-4669-0350-0. Chong, Ja Ian (2012). External Intervention and the Politics of State ...
... namely the chapter dealing with the Soviet military's takeover of the Baltic states - has been used by Estonian historian ... where in the strip from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea it had already gathered 81.6% out of the divisions which the German ... and maybe the United States. Hitler's idea could thus be characterised as striving for a victory in the East for the purpose of ... This idea is clearly expressed in the document of May 15, 1941, by which the Red Army was to be guided in the beginning of war ...
Hitler stated his intention to turn not only the areas mentioned above but also the entire Baltic region (Reichskommissariat ... based mainly along state and district lines. The Gaue existed parallel to the German states, the Länder, and Prussian provinces ... Of the Baltic countries, Peipusland was proposed as a replacement-name for Estonia, and Dünaland for Latvia. In a conference on ... The Gau system was established in 1934 as part of the Gleichschaltung process, replacing the de jure system of Länder (states) ...
Assistant Secretary of State at U.S Department of State The Baltic States and their Region: New Europe or Old? by David J. ... However, this "Russian Plan for Invasion of the Baltic States," (as published in The Baltic Independent in 1995), had never ... "Russian Plan for Invasion of the Baltic States," The Baltic Independent 27 October - 2 November 1995, 2. "Vene poliitikud: nüüd ... The Relations Between Russia and the Baltic States" (PDF). Retrieved 24 September 2011. "Laura Kauppila. The Baltic Puzzle. ...
Kevin O'Connor (2006). Culture and customs of the Baltic states. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 123. ISBN 978-0-313-33125-1. ... Wyka states that the poet's mother was the daughter of a noble (szlachta) family of Starykoń coat of arms, living on an estate ... Its title refers to the pagan ancestor commemoration that had been practiced by Slavic and Baltic peoples on All Souls' Day. ... Mickiewicz had been brought up in the culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, a multicultural state that had encompassed ...
During the next eleven months the Soviets occupied and annexed the Baltic states. The Soviet Union supported Germany in the war ... Nedic's Serbia was a puppet state installed by Nazi Germany. Unlike the puppet state Independent State of Croatia, the regime ... The legality of the annexation was not recognized by most Western countries and the Baltic states continued to exist formally ... The legality of the annexation was not recognised by most Western countries and the Baltic states continued to exist as ...
... such as its occupation of the Baltic states, its war against Finland, its occupation and atrocities in Poland, and its ... as part of the Why We Fight series Propaganda in the United States Poague, Leland A. ed. Frank Capra: Interviews, Univ. Press ... 94-96 Mieczysław B. Biskupski (January 2010). Hollywood's war with Poland, 1939-1945. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 148-150 ... Mieczysław B. Biskupski (January 2010). Hollywood's war with Poland, 1939-1945. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 151-152. ISBN ...
1953 Baltic State Opera and Philharmonic formed. Stoczniowiec Gdańsk ice hockey team established. 1956 1 May: Lechia Gdańsk ... August 28: State burial of Polish national heroes Danuta Siedzikówna and Feliks Selmanowicz in the 70th anniversary of their ... 2011 Baltic Arena opens. October: Gdańsk hosts the 2011 European Table Tennis Championships. 2012 - Gdańsk co-hosts the UEFA ... Indiana University Press, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. p. 56. ISBN 978-0-253-06089-1. Gliński, p. 176 Gliński, p. ...
"The Baltic States from 1914 to 1923: The First World War and the Wars of Independence" (PDF). Baltic Defence Review. 2/2002. ... The History of the Baltic States (2nd ed. ABC-CLIO, 2015). Palmer, Alan. The Baltic: A new history of the region and its people ... On April 2, Latvia became a member of NATO and on May 1, Latvia, along with the other two Baltic States, became a member of the ... The Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania (Routledge, 2013) online. Lumans; Valdis O. Latvia in World War II (Fordham ...
The Institute of the Lithuanian Language (Lithuanian: Lietuvių kalbos institutas) in Vilnius is a state-supported research ... Structure: Research Centre of the Baltic Languages and Onomastics Research Centre of Standard Language Research Centre of ... The Institute of the Lithuanian Language conducts scientific research on the standard Lithuanian language, Baltic languages and ... Today it is a state-level research body of special national importance. The origins of the institute can be traced to the ...
The history of the Baltic States, Greenwood Publishing Group, ISBN 0-313-32355-0 O'Neil, Patrick (1997), Post-communism and the ... Other states were converted into Soviet Satellite states, such as the People's Republic of Poland, the People's Republic of ... Those accused of "propaganda hostile to the state" could be those that once stated that it was not necessary to station tanks ... not so much the result of recurrent state triumphs over rival groups as it was intermittent state triumphs combined with state- ...
... covered traffic on the northern part of the Russian front and in the Baltic states. It was variously at Riga/Dueneberg, Pskov ... The United States, after the entry of the USA into the war. Spain, Portugal and Brazil. Miscellaneous western traffic. The ... Traffic originating in the United States and Iceland, and from American troops in the British Isles was monitored by Feste 3, ... Section 4 of the Intercept Control Station East (HLS Ost) monitored NKVD Inter-Soviet State traffic, and radio broadcasts of ...
... the Allies allow Germany to retain Czechoslovakia and the Soviet Union the Baltic states. With the Soviets remaining on the ... The United States enacts an embargo against Japan; in response, Japan attacks British, French, Dutch, and American targets ... while the United States abandons its Lend Lease support for Britain and France. Soviet forces retreat into their own territory ... and Stalin moves troops to the Far East while concluding an alliance with the United States. "Uchronia: The War That Came Early ...
The Nazis also aimed to occupy and colonize non-German territories in Poland, the Baltic states, and the Soviet Union, as part ... The area containing the Shan States and Kayah State was annexed by Thailand in 1942, and four northern states of Malaya were ... the United States did not. The Thais and Japanese agreed that the Burmese Shan State and Karenni State were to be under Thai ... Abinales, Patricio N; Amoroso, Donna J. (2005). State And Society In The Philippines. State and Society in East Asia Series. ...
In spite of having spent the greater part of his life in Russia and the Baltic States and Eastern Europe, he remained solidly ... In 1918 Urch was arrested by the Cheka, the Soviet state security organisation. No explanation of his arrest and imprisonment ... Private property was abolished and people were divided into categories for the distribution of food by the state, some ... the rounding up the bugs and beetles of Russia to found a State Beetle-soap industry, using tadpoles as excellent swine-fodder ...
Misiunas, Romuald; Rein Taagepera (1993). The Baltic States: Years of Dependence 1940-1990 (revised ed.). University of ... In 1934, Povilaitis was promoted to the Director of the State Security Department. In this capacity he enforced the ban of the ... was a captain of the Lithuanian Army and Director of the State Security Department of Lithuania. Together with Minister of the ... After a trial Povilaitis was sentenced to death and executed in July 1941. For a long time very little was known about his ...
After the end of the war, he served in the Freikorps "Grodno" in the Baltic States from 1919 to 1920, and remained there during ... On 20 April 1939 he was accepted into the SS (SS number 314,170) with the rank of SS-Oberführer, and next commanded the police ... In August 1941 he was promoted to SS-Brigadeführer and Generalmajor of Police, and was deployed to the Soviet Union as SS and ... In December 1941 he was also involved in the mass murder of around 15,000 Jews at Drobytsky Yar near Kharkiv. In July 1942, ...
... the Baltic states and Finland between the two powers. President Franklin D. Roosevelt was urgently informed, but the United ... Fitzroy Maclean, then a young diplomat in the British Embassy, states in his memoir Eastern Approaches that Herwarth condemned ... Baltic Fates: With a View on WW2. 100 Days That Destroyed the Peace, Riga-Hamburg-Rostock-London: SIA BOTA, 2002. ISBN 9984-19- ... France and the United States not to give in to Hitler's territorial demands. Hans von Herwarth was the chief contact from the ...
... the Baltic states among others, make the catastrophe a "European project" according to historian Dan Stone. In Belgium the ... A State Department telegram sent to a passenger stated that the passengers must "await their turns on the waiting list and ... by which time the Jewish populations in the Baltic states had been effectively eliminated. To make for smoother intra- ... Department of State. Retrieved 1 January 2018. USHMM. "Budapest". United States Holocaust Memorial Museum-Holocaust ...
In A History of the Baltic States. New York: Macmillan Education. Kassymbekova, B. (2016). Despite Cultures: Early Soviet Rule ... Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press. Pipes, R. (1997, orig. ed. 1954). The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and ... In Propaganda State in Crisis: Soviet Ideology, Indoctrination, and Terror under Stalin, 1927-1941. New Haven: Yale University ... In Industry, State, and Society in Stalin's Russia, 1926-1934. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Bibliographies of Russian ( ...
... the Soviet Union sent ultimatums to the Baltic countries, where it demanded military bases on their soil. The Baltic states ... "Changing States, Changing Sámi?: Framing the state and the Sámi in studies of history in Finland and Norway 1923-1954." in The ... "The Conceptual History of the Welfare State in Finland." in The Changing Meanings of the Welfare State: Histories of a Key ... "Wars, nation and the welfare state in Finland." in Warfare and welfare: Military conflict and welfare state development in ...