Žiežmariai (Zhizhmory, Zysmory) is a town ca. 30 km east of Kaunas. In World War One, it was passed through by units of Korps Litzmann in late August 1915 during the German offensive to take Vilnius, which fell on September 18. When the Red Army followed in the footsteps of the German withdrawal from Russia
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