Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania

VLIK sent envoys to Sweden and Finland, maintained contacts with Lithuanian diplomats in Switzerland, and attempted to inform the western powers of the crimes perpetrated by the Nazis.

[2] They thought that their biggest enemy was still the Soviet Union and that resources should be conserved for the upcoming armed resistance against the Russians.

[2] In early 1944 VLIK sent colonel Kazimieras Amraziejus on a mission to Stockholm, but he was captured and interrogated by the Gestapo in Estonia.

[3] Functions of VLIK were resumed in October 1944 in Würzburg, but soon moved to Reutlingen ahead of the approaching Red Army.

[7] Numerous further notes were sent to the United Nations, various diplomats, academics, journalists promoting their cause and reporting human right violations in Lithuania.

[7] VLIK attempted to establish contacts with the armed resistance in Lithuania, but had only limited communication with Juozas Lukša.

[6] This caused decade-long disagreements with Stasys Lozoraitis, who was in charge of the diplomatic service and had a back-dated appointment as prime minister by the last president of Lithuania Antanas Smetona.

VLIK's main goal was to maintain non-recognition of Lithuania's occupation and dissemination of information from behind the Iron Curtain.