Kammala jumlar da ke gaba: Lithuania ta sake samun 'yancin kai a 1918 bayan faduwar Daular Rasha. Yayin da tashin hankali ya tashi a Turai, Nazi Jamus da Tarayyar Soviet sun sanya hannu kan Yarjejeniyar Molotov-Ribbentrop kuma sun raba Gabashin Turai zuwa yankuna masu tasiri. Daga baya, Tarayyar Soviet ta mamaye Lithuania a watan Yunin 1940. Soviets sun kafa manufofin Sovietization da zalunci. A watan Yunin 1941, Soviets
an tura Lithuanians sama da 17,000 zuwa Siberia, tare da yawancin waɗanda aka kora sun mutu a lokacin tsananin hunturu. Lokacin da 'yan kwanaki daga baya Jamus ta kaddamar da mamayewa na Rasha, Lithuanians shirya wani m anti-Soviet tawaye. Da farko, Lithuanians sun gaishe da Jamusawa a matsayin masu 'yanci daga mulkin Soviet na zalunci kuma sun yi shirye-shirye don sake kafa Lithuania mai zaman kanta. Duk da haka, halin ya canza ba da daɗewa ba yayin da Nazi Jamus ta ci gaba da mamaye Lithuania.