 Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Somugumisiro weOperation Bagration, Soviet 1st Baltic Front yakasvika kumiganhu yekumabvazuva kweLithuania muzhizha ra1944 uye yakaramba ichisundira mberi panguva yeBaltic Offensive. Munzvimbo dzakanga dzakapambwa, varume vaduku vaimanikidzwa kupinda muRed Army. VaLithuania, vachitambura kudzvinyirirwa kweSoviet muna 194041, vakatanga kubuda vakananga kumadokero uye vakaumba mapoka akazvigadzira muSamogitia. Musi wa 28 Chikunguru 1944, vakuru vakuru veLithuania vakasangana mumusha weLithuania uye vakakurukura sarudzo dzekudzivirira Lithuania: kana kubatana neWehrmacht uye kurwira pachena kana kuve vemuchengeti uye kurwira hondo yemagandanga, zano rakasarudzwa neLithuanian Freedom Army. Yekutanga sarudzo yakakunda nemuganhu mudiki wemavhoti uye aya mauniti akagadziriswa akarongwa muTAR, inotungamirwa naKaputeni Izidorius Jatulis. VaLithuania vakatanga kutaurirana naHellmuth Mäder, mukuru mukuru mu9th Army, kuburikidza nemupristi Jonas Steponavičius. Mäder akabvuma kutsigira chikwata chitsva nokuchipa zvombo uye yunifomu. 