Vokiečių evakuacija iš Lietuvos 1919 m. Italijos tarpsąjunginės komisijos nario akimis: 1919 m. spalis–gruodis

ENIn autumn of 1919, Germans were still in Lithuania and partially in Latvia; gentlemen of Baltics, wanting to preserve their property, supported the Germans, who were still expecting for annexation. Unfortunately, after the defeat Germany could not reveal its purpose of annexation openly, and for this reason used their own established units of colonel P. Bermondt-Avalov, situated in Lithuania and Latvia. In Paris the Allies were watching this whole situation, but they were disunited as well. USA and Italy did not have any political interest in Baltic region, while at the time France and Great Britain were interested in this. British were seeking to fight against communists the most, as well as for the complete independence of every Baltic country. French wanted the results that would be beneficial for their pursued foreign policy. From the second half of 16th century, by supporting Poland, they wanted to make a lot of trouble to Germany and Habsburg dynasty. When this issue was raised again, Baltic region became indifferent to them. France proposed confederation of Baltic countries, including Finland in it, and maybe even Poland. France was pushing others to support independence of Baltic countries, proposed to establish special commission and based their device by real threats to occupy Ruhr and Rhineland. Despite different opinions of every country of the Ally, the main problem remained presence of German soldiers and volunteers in Baltic countries because Bolsheviks were not posing direct threat, so the essential issue remains how to force Germans to leave this region. Seeing that nothing is going on, Supreme leadership of Allied forces found Commission on October the 10th, which was devoted to solve the issue of evacuation of Germans from Baltic countries, mainly from Latvia and Lithuania. Italian general Marietti also participated in the work of this commission.In this article, view of general Marietti, as a neutral observer, is provided about the work of this commission while moving Bermondtists from Baltics, as well as other material that remained in the archives. [From the publication]