In the late 1939 German occupational authorities established control over the estate.

On 17 July 1941 the German occupational authority, the Reichskommissariat Ostland, was created.

Two years later, German occupational authorities added a second track.

Damaskinos formally protested the actions of the occupational authorities.

Armeekorps acted as the occupational authority, using 57.

Only eight Jews were detained here; the camp was designated mostly for Dutchmen convicted of black market trade or resistance to the occupational authorities.

This was in order overcome limitations placed by the occupational Russian authorities which, for strategic reasons, prevented the construction of a railway bridge.

Despite this vigorous opposition, the French occupational authorities began the construction of a modern airfield at the end of June 1951.