Stock Photo - Propaganda! of the national socialist reporting on the back of the picturet: ""From the war in the East. From the border crossing-point: One year of Soviet-Russian mismanagement in Latvia and the population has to live in want. German soldiers give small Lithuanians something to eat."" Motif from the Eastern front, Lithuania, 06/24/1941. The attack undertaken by the German Army on the Soviet Union took place on 06/22/1941 under the code name ""Operation Barbarossa"". First welcomed and supported by the local population as ""liberators from the stalinist yoke"" the Wehrmacht became hated by the majority, which led to a guerilla warfare carried out with extreme brutality. [Irregularities in quality are due to its historical original.] Photo: Berliner Verlag / Archiv - GESPERRT FÜR BILDFUNK -. - Unbekannt/Lithuania