 Nyorai kuenderera mberi kwechikamu chino - Kumukira kwaJune yaive nguva pfupi munhoroondo yeLithuania pakati pekutanga kweSoviet nekugara kweNazi mukupera kwaJune 1941. Rinenge gore rakanga rapfuura, pana June 15, 1940, Red Army yakatora Lithuania uye Lithuanian Soviet Socialist Republic isingadiwi nevanhu yakakurumidza kugadzwa. Kudzvinyirira kwezvematongerwe enyika norutyo zvakashandiswa kunyaradza vatsoropodzi vayo nokudzvinyirira kuramba kupi nokupi. Apo Nazi Germany yakarwisa Soviet Unionmusi waJune 22, 1941, vanhu vakasiyana-siyana vokuLithuania vakamukira hurumende yeSoviet, vakazivisa kuzvitonga patsva, uye vakaumba hurumende yeProvisional iyo yakagara kwenguva pfupi. Maguta makuru maviri echiLithuania, Kaunas neVilnius, akawira mumaoko evapanduki Wehrmacht asati asvika. Mukati mevhiki, Mauto eGermany akatora kudzora Lithuania yose. VaLithuania vakakwazisa vaGerman sevasununguri kubva mukudzvinyirira kweSoviet uye vaitarisira kuti vaGerman vaizodzorera kuzvimiririra kwavo kana kuti kubvumira imwe nhanho yekuzvitonga yakafanana neSlovak Republic. Rutsigiro rwakadaro haruna kubva kuvaNazi, avo vakatsiva nenzira yakatsiga masangano echiLithuania nehurumende yavo vamene. Reichskommissariat Ostland yakatangwa pakupera kwaJuly 1941. Vasina simba chairo, Hurumende yeChipiri yakazviregedza imene pana August 5. 