Complex sentence: At the very end of 1918, Germany gave the Lithuanian government a 100-million-mark credit, and a gradual formation of the Lithuanian army, as well as that the Lithuanian State itself, was made possible under the auspices of the German army.
Split into simpler sentences: At the very end of 1918, Germany gave the Lithuanian government a 100-million-mark credit. Gradual formation of the Lithuanian State and the Lithuanian army proceeded under the auspices of the German army.