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.

[edit] On the outside

Ninth Fort		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			Shooting embrasures

[edit] On the inside

[edit] Prison

Prison cell

Heater

[edit] Catacombs

Shooting embrasure	Shooting embrasure for cannon	Longest tunnel (about 143 m, on the left wing)

View from the observation post		Must on the walls
Through this door on December 25, 1943 escaped 64 prisoners.