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Adolf Hitler in Memel in March 1939. After Nazi Germany took over the area in 1939, many Lithuanians and their organizations began leaving Memel and the surrounding area. Memel was quickly turned into a fortified naval base by the Germans. After the failure of the German invasion of the USSR the fate of East Prussia and Memel was sealed. By ...
Memel, a name derived from the Couronian-Latvian memelis, mimelis, mēms for "mute, silent", may refer to: Memel, East Prussia, Germany, now Klaipėda , Lithuania Memelburg, ( Klaipėda Castle ), the Ordensburg in Memel, a castle built in 1252 by Teutonic Knights which was the nucleus for the city
This maps outlines them, and the border of the German Confederation of the time. Deutsch: "Von der Maas bis an die Memel, von der Etsch bis an den Belt", die 4 "Grenzen" aus dem Deutschlandlied im geographisch-historischen Kontext von 1841:
In present-day Germany, the former eastern territories of Germany (German: ehemalige deutsche Ostgebiete) refer to those territories east of the current eastern border of Germany, i.e. the Oder–Neisse line, which historically had been considered German and which were annexed by Poland and the Soviet Union after World War II.
In 1913, Karkeln and surrounding inland towns (those south of the yellow line in the map) were administratively transferred to Kreis Niederung. [ 1 ] [ additional citation(s) needed ] After World War I , Landkreis Heydekrug and other areas north of the yellow line became part of Memel Territory administered by Lithuania .
In the Memel region as a whole, the Germans constituted 50.7% (71,191), the Lithuanians 47.9% (67,345), and the bilingual population (composed mostly of Lithuanians) – 1.4% (1,970). [3] According to contemporary statistics by Fred Hermann Deu, 71,156 Germans and 67,259 Prussian Lithuanians lived in the region. [ 4 ]
Historical map of Klaipėda Region (Memelland) and the northern part of East Prussia. The Klaipėda Convention (or Convention concerning the Territory of Memel) was an international agreement between Lithuania and the countries of the Conference of Ambassadors (United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Japan) signed in Paris on May 8, 1924.
Memel Workers Party (German: Memelländische Arbeiterpartei, abbreviated MAP; Lithuanian: Klaipėdos krašto darbininkų partija) was a communist organisation in the Memel Territory in 1925-1935. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The party was founded in 1925 as a legal organization of the Communist Party of Lithuania. [ 2 ]