Word: lithuania
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...Archbishop of Kaunas, Roman Catholic Primate of Lithuania, was severely wounded and a priest accompanying him killed by "accidental" Nazi gunfire when he went to Vilna to substitute for its Archbishop, whom the Nazis had jailed...
...published in Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Statistical Bulletin show that in Poland in 1940 typhus increased ten times over 1939, in 1941 three times over 1940. In London last week Anthony Eden told Parliament that typhus was epidemic from the Russian front through eastern and southeastern Europe. Lithuania and Rumania were reported full of it. The Warsaw ghetto, crammed with Jews by Nazi command, was said to be a hell of typhus. Elsewhere in Poland the Nazis were capitalizing on the disease with anti-Semitic posters. One, picturing a gigantic louse and a horribly caricatured Jewish face...
Churches were closed in Kaunas and Vilna, markets suspended throughout Lithuania. Tass, Soviet News Agency, claimed a captured German medical report said that "100% of our soldiers (in one battalion) are more or less covered with lice" - not an incredible statement to men who remember World...
...administrative purposes the vast terrain was divided into two parts: the Ukraine and Ostland (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, White Russia). Doktor Rosenberg enraged many Ukrainian nationalists, who for years had hoped for Ukrainian independence, or a Reich Protectorate, by handing two big chunks of the Ukraine to others-Eastern Galicia to the Government of Occupied Poland, the great seaport Odessa to Rumania...
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