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    • Nazi Mass Execution Trenches at Fort IX, Kaunas Lithuania 

      Jol, Harry M.; Mataitis, Richard J.; Burds, Luke T.; Beck, Joseph D. (2018-04)
      Shortly after the Nazi occupation of Lithuania in June of 1941, they began to round up the country’s Jewish population as part of the Nazi’s “Final Solution”. At Fort IX as many as 45,000 Jews and Communists were killed ...