NEW NAZI OSTLAND
STATES OF BALTIC PORTION OF RUSSIA (Reed. Aug. 12, 9 a.m.) LONDON, Aug. 11. The Stockholm correspondent of The Times says that Germany has incorporated Lithuania and Latvia into an entity called Ostland, whose limits are undefined, but are believed to comprise not only the Baltic States but parts of Russia. Recently, the newly - appointed German commissar in Ostland arrived in Kaunas and induced the Lithuanian Government to dissolve itself. This Government was formed in the first week of the Russian-German war, and simultaneously the greater part of the Lithuanian troops transferred their services to Germany instead of to the Red Army, in which they were incorporated last year. At the end of July Germany intimated to Kaunas and Riga that the Baltic States would not again become independent but would be administered from Berlin.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 20631, 12 August 1941, Page 5
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