What the records say
- When
- 8 May 1945
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 55.46° N, 26.47° E
- Government
- Soviet Union
- Former government
- Reichskommissariat Ostland
- History
- The final pockets of German resistance in the Ostland ended in the last days of the war and the region once again fell under the Soviet sphere.
- Source map
- Ostland Administration Map · 1:1,500,000 · Geographisches Instutitut, Riga
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Reichskommissariat Ostland
Territory of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945
The Reichskommissariat Ostland was an administrative entity of the Reich Ministry for the Occupied Eastern Territories of Nazi Germany from 1941 to 1945. It served as the German civilian occupation regime in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, and the western part of the Byelorussian SSR during the Eastern Front of World War II.
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The source
- European Borders, World War II (1938–1945)Stanford Spatial History Lab (M. De Groot)Stanford Spatial History Lab: scholarly reuse, no commercial use
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