Nazi Germany

Lately, social media has been actively circulating posts falsely claiming that Lithuanians should be grateful to Russia for certain invaluable gifts.

The national defence minister says that the act of vandalism against a monument to freedom fighter Adolfas Ramanauskas-Vanagas in Merkinė, southern town of Lithuania, is a humiliation of the “pillars of statehood”. It may be connected to Russia’s upcoming celebration of victory over Nazi Germany in ...

Lithuanian families who hid Jews during the Nazi occupation were honored as Righteous Among the Nations in Lithuania's second-largest city of Kaunas on Thursday at a conference dedicated to Chiune Sugihara, a Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust during World War Two.

VILNIUS, Dec 23, BNS – Russia has been lately trying by all means to rewrite history, Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda says.

Авторы сериала Netflix "Дьявол по соседству" (The Devil Next Door) согласились добавить аннотации к карте Европы, возмутившей польского премьер-министра.

Lithuania plans to continue to boycott May 9 events in Russia, which celebrates the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany on that day, the Foreign Ministry has told BNS.

David Irving, a British historian convicted of denying the Holocaust, has been banned from entering Lithuania.

A fine of up to 300 euros is proposed for wearing Russian St. George's ribbons with black and orange stripes in Lithuania.

Employees of the ethnographic museum of Marijampolė, southern Lithuania, have discovered operational documents of the Nazi occupational administration in Lithuania, the Special Archive said on Friday.

Effective German cooperation with the Lithuanians became a death trap for the Jews of Lithuania. In Lithuania it was patriots – ethnic nationalists - who killed the Jews in the hopes of creating a strong ethnic state without Jews, Russians and Poles. This is what eminent German historian Dr. Christo...

The massacre base established during World War II by the Nazi Germany in Paneriai just outside Vilnius was three times the size of the current memorial, Lithuanian historians have established.

In her congratulatory message to the German-led NATO battalion in Lithuania, Germany's Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen on Tuesday pledged to defend Lithuania's freedom and independence.

Kaunas —Saturday marked the opening of a weeklong public program at the New Šančiai Synagogue in Kaunas, Lithuania, commemorating of the seventy-fifth anniversary of the beginning of the Holocaust in Lithuania. Organised by the International Centre for Litvak Photography, or IC4LP, the program is th...

A memorial march is held in Molėtai, eastern Lithuania, on Monday to honour victims of the Holocaust.

On August 23, Lithuania is celebrating the 27th anniversary of the Baltic Way, a defining moment in the Baltic countries' movement for independence from the Soviet Union. To read this article, try a €5.99 monthly subscription by clicking here.

A new five-rouble coin issued by the central bank of Russia has irritated Lithuania by including its capital Vilnius among the European cities liberated from the Nazis by the Red Army.