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{{unreferenced}}Germany occupied the Baltic pepublics of the USSR after invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 during ''[[Operation Barbarossa]]''. German policy in the area was also harsh, culminating in the [[Holocaust]] in the Baltic lands. German occupation authorities collaborated with parts of local population in the area who, especially in the first stages of the occupation, saw Germans as a chance to avoid domination by the USSR and communists. As it became clear that the Nazis would not agree with the re-establishment of independent statehood and the occupation became increasingly brutal, growing proportion of local population turned against the Germans. |
{{unreferenced}}Germany occupied the Baltic pepublics of the USSR after invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 during ''[[Operation Barbarossa]]''. German policy in the area was also harsh, culminating in the [[Holocaust]] in the Baltic lands. German occupation authorities collaborated with parts of local population in the area who, especially in the first stages of the occupation, saw Germans as a chance to avoid domination by the USSR and communists. As it became clear that the Nazis would not agree with the re-establishment of independent statehood and the occupation became increasingly brutal, growing proportion of local population turned against the Germans. |
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Germany occupied the Baltic pepublics of the USSR after invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941 during Operation Barbarossa. German policy in the area was also harsh, culminating in the Holocaust in the Baltic lands. German occupation authorities collaborated with parts of local population in the area who, especially in the first stages of the occupation, saw Germans as a chance to avoid domination by the USSR and communists. As it became clear that the Nazis would not agree with the re-establishment of independent statehood and the occupation became increasingly brutal, growing proportion of local population turned against the Germans.
The Nazis grafted all of the Baltic states (except for the Memel (Klaipeda) region annexed into Greater Germany in 1939) and most of Belarus into the Reichskommissariat Ostland, a colony in all but name in which the four predominant nationalities had little role in governance. Hinrich Lohse, a German Nazi politician, was Reichskommissar until fleeing the Soviet advance.
One of the Nazi plans for the colonisation of conquered territories in the East, referred to as Generalplan Ost, called for the wholesale deportation of some two thirds of the native population from territories of the Baltic states in the event of a German victory. The remaining third were either to be exterminated in situ, used as slave labour or Germanised if deemed sufficiently Aryan, while hundreds of thousands of German settlers were to be moved into the conquered territories.