Lithuanian Front

The Lithuanian Front (Lithuanian: Lietuvių frontas; abbreviated LF) was an underground anti-Nazi and anti-Soviet Lithuanian resistance organisation active from September 1941, led by Juozas Ambrazevičius. It was one of the main anti-Nazi resistance movements in Lithuania, alongside the Lithuanian Freedom Fighters' Union (LLKS). Ambrazevičius was the most important and influential leader of the national Lithuanian resistance to Nazi German occupation.

The LF engaged in nonviolent resistance to Nazi Germany's occupation of Lithuania by sabotaging German exploitation of forced labour, suppression of Lithuanian education and the creation of a Lithuanian Waffen-SS Legion. For example, the LF issued an edict on 10 October 1941 against the registration of Lithuanian men by the occupying German administration. The Lithuanian resistance avoided combat because it wanted to avoid helping the Soviet Union, to re-occupy it. The resistance wanted Germany to be defeated by the Western Allies. Regardless, the resistance prepared for military resistance in case it was necessary.

The goals of the LF were to preserve the population of Lithuania and strengthen the country's unity, cultural institutions, enterprises, and farms. Its slogan was "Lithuanian for Lithuanian" (lietuvis už lietuvį), emphasizing Lithuanian unity in the face of the foreign occupations of Lithuania. Because the organisation was illegal, paperwork was avoided and most of its functions mainly carried out by verbal agreements.