In 1939. with the dark clouds of war hovering over the world. Nazi Germany occupied the city of Memel. A rapid sequence of events resulted in the reoccupation of Lithuania by Soviet troops under the guise of "mutual assistance." On August 3. 1940. Lithuania was incorporated as a constituent republic of the U.S.S.R. While thousands fled from the Stalinist commissars. many more thousands were deported to the wilds of Siberia or executed as the Soviet forces retreated under German attack. Nor did the Nazis bring the breath of freedom back to the brave and proud people of Lithuania. They proceeded to murder almost all Lithuanian Jews.
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