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On
22
June
1941
Nazi
Germany
attacked
the
Soviet
Union
,
of
which
Latvian
territory
formed
a
part
.
The
lightning
advance
of
the
German
Army
(
Wehrmacht
)
forced
the
Red
Army
to
leave
the
Baltic
region
and
withdraw
towards
Russia
.
The
applicant
,
who
was
living
near
the
border
at
the
time
,
followed
.
By
5
July
1941
the
whole
of
Latvia
had
been
overrun
by
the
Wehrmacht
.
The
three
Baltic
States
and
part
of
Belarus
were
joined
to
form
a
vast
territory
administered
by
the
Reich
Commissariat
for
the
Eastern
Territories
(
Reichskomissariat
Ostland
)
,
which
took
orders
directly
from
Berlin
.
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