[1][2] It was one of the main anti-Nazi resistance movements in Lithuania, alongside the Lithuanian Freedom Fighters' Union [lt] (LLKS).
[1][3] The goals of the LF were to preserve the population of Lithuania and strengthen the country's unity, cultural institutions, enterprises, and farms.
[1] The predecessor of the Lithuanian Front and organizer of the anti-Soviet June Uprising, the LAF, was banned on 26 September 1941 by the order of Adrian von Renteln, the General Commissioner of German-occupied Lithuania.
[8] After the LAF was banned, there were practically no more organizations left in Lithuania that could defend Lithuanian interests and oppose the occupiers.
[9] Many former LAF members, mostly from its Catholic wing, regrouped as the Lithuanian Front and began underground anti-Nazi activities.
[9] LF was mainly composed of activists from the Lithuanian Christian Democratic Party and Catholic youth organisations such as Ateitis.
[1] The most important organizers and leaders of the Lithuanian Front were Juozas Ambrazevičius and his right-hand man Adolfas Damušis [lt], who were the acting prime minister and government minister, respectively, of the former Lithuanian Provisional Government, as well as former LAF members such as Zenonas Ivinskis, Antanas Maceina and professors Pranas Padalis and Vladas Viliamas [lt], in addition to other prominent cultural and political figures.
[13] The Lithuanian Front was represented by Adolfas Damušis (vice-chairman of the presidium until when he was arrested by the Gestapo in June 1944, whereupon he was replaced by Povilas Šilas [lt]).
[1] According to the Lithuanian historian Dalia Kuodytė, few members of either the LF or LLKS remained in Lithuania when the Soviet Union re-occupied it in 1944, because all of them had already been deported to Nazi concentration camps or emigrated westwards.