IX Fort

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English: The Ninth Fort is a stronghold in the northern Šilainiai elderate of the Lithuanian city of Kaunas, making a part of the Kaunas Fortress, constructed in the late 19th century.


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On the outside [edit]

  • Ninth Fort

  • Kaunas Fortress.Ninth Fort.jpg

  • Prison wall

  • Prison wall

  • Prison wall

  • There near this wall nazis shot and burned people in 1943-1944.

  • Defending wall

  • Observation post (one of the two).

  • Prison garden

  • Kaunas Fortress.Ninth Fort 2.jpg
  • Kaunas Fortress.Ninth Fort 3.jpg

  • Shooting embrasures

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On the inside [edit]

Prison [edit]

  • Prison cell

  • Prison cell

  • Prison cell

  • Heater

Catacombs [edit]

  • Shooting embrasure

  • Shooting embrasure for cannon

  • Longest tunnel (about 143 m, on the left wing)

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  • View from the observation post

  • IX Fort (2008-09-20)20.jpg

  • Must on the walls

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  • Through this door on December 25, 1943 escaped 64 prisoners.

Exhibition [edit]

  • IX Fort (2008-09-20)10.jpg

Monument [edit]

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