Provisional Government of Lithuania

Vygantas Vareikis [lt] wrote that the Lithuanian Provisional Government "did not encourage brutal actions" against Jews or LAF leaders, and the local press proposed that only high-ranking Communist officials and NKVD officers should be punished by death.

[6] The Provisional Government did little to stop the anti-Jewish violence encouraged by the Nazis and the anti-Semitic leadership of the Lithuanian Activist Front.

[citation needed] Lithuanian police battalions formed by the Provisional Government helped the Nazis carry out the Holocaust.

[8] The third period of interest covers the historiography since 1990, he wrote, which has attempted new and open discussions of the defensive (emigré) and ideological (Soviet) reactions to the Holocaust.

[10] The Provisional Government dissolved in August 1941 after deciding that it had failed to achieve an autonomous if not independent Lithuania under German patronage.

Session of the Provisional Government of Lithuania under the chairmanship by Juozas Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis in Kaunas , 1941.
Juozas Ambrazevičius-Brazaitis, acting prime minister of the Provisional Government
Front page of the first issue of the newspaper Į laisvę [ lt ] ("To Liberty") with the declaration of independence
Memorial plaque on the wall of the former radiophone building in Kaunas