The defense Ministry has declassified documents about the liberation of Vilnius
The Ministry of defence of Russia has published on its Internet representation of the declassified documents to the 75-anniversary of the liberation of Vilnius from German-fascist invaders, about it told the Department of information and mass communications Department.
The Ministry of defence of Russia has published on its Internet representation of the declassified documents to the 75-anniversary of the liberation of Vilnius from German-fascist invaders, about it told the Department of information and mass communications Department.
Among the documents printed illustrated edition of the fighting, the orders of the Supreme commander N111 dated 13 July 1944, acts, award sheets for the heroes-liberators and articles from periodicals about the horrors of the "new order" established by the Nazis in the occupied city, and pictures about panic retreat of the Nazis.
in addition, published evidence of how the inhabitants of whole families met the red army soldiers.
The project tells about how the morning of 9 July 1944, the German command tried to land in Vilnius parachuted with 30 high-speed bombers " Junkers-88 ".
"The soldiers do not leave the enemy no chance. The aircraft is surrounded by a garrison not able to cover the landing - because two days before this Soviet aces have destroyed 14 German aircraft in the air and four more precisely at the airport of the city ", - stressed in the Ministry of defence.
the section also presents conclusions of the special Committee, which examined witnesses and investigated the mass graves at the "Base" - the factory of death with an area of 40 hectares in the town of the Panaro for a two-meter barbed wire fence for 3 years killed more than 200 thousand people.
in the punitive expedition consisted of local residents-the Baltic States, stressed in the Ministry of defence, in a public act got their names.
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