A German field postcard (Feldpost) of Goduzischki (now Adutiškis, Lithuania) sent from the field post station No. 284 in 1916. The name Goduzischki probably comes from the Russian Годутишки/Godutishki. It was a strategic town during WWI, located on the top of a hill near the river Kamaja and having a railway station. Adutiškis went through a complicated geopolitical history, became part of Central Lithuania (Hoduciszki in Polish) then annexed to Poland and later incorporated to Soviet Belarus (Гадуцішкі/Gadutzishki in Belarusian) before Lithuanian regained the town in 1940.
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