In their campaign of genocide. the Nazis virtually wiped out this portion of the population. In all. the Nazis took an estimated 200.000 Lithuanian lives. When the Soviet armies returned to expel the Nazis in 1944. some 60.000 fleeing Lithuanians were found in East Germany and deported to Siberia. In the years 1945 and 1946. an estimated 145.000 Lithuanians were deported from their homeland. Another 60.000 were sent away early in 1949. after the farm population had refused to cooperate in the collectivization of agriculture. Add to these atrocities the thousands of freedom fighters who fought against impossible odds and the hundreds of Lithuanians who were executed by the Communists after mass trials.
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