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    Klaipėda Region (redirect from Memelland)
    Klaipėda Region (Lithuanian: Klaipėdos kraštas) or Memel Territory (German: Memelland or Memelgebiet) was defined by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles in 1920 and...
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    German) Der Kurenwimpel (in German) Curonians in Memelland (in German) Curonian placenames in Memelland (in German) Studentu zinātniskās konferences "Aktuāli...
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    1939, forcing the concession of the Klaipėda Region, formerly the German Memelland. Greatly alarmed and with Hitler making further demands on the Free City...
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    also spelled Saß, was a German Lutheran pastor and community leader in Memelland, a central figure in a legal process known as the Trial of Neumann and...
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    [citation needed] After the Nazis' rise to power, Germany reclaimed the Memelland and after the outbreak of the Eastern Front (World War II) occupied the...
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    the 1939 census now also included the areas of Austria, Sudetenland and Memelland. About 750,000 counters covered 22 million households and roughly 80 million...
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  • which was the nucleus for the city Memel Territory (Klaipėda Region), (Memelland), the area separated from Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, later called...
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    Russia). His father Fritz, born 1913 in Absteinen near Pogegen in the Memelland (today Opstainys in Pagėgiai Municipality, Lithuania), was killed a month...
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    Slovakia and making the rest of the nation a protectorate. That same year, Memelland was returned from Lithuania. With the Anschluss, the Republic of Austria...
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    Gaue with regions occupied in 1938 to early 1939 (Austria, Sudetenland, Memelland) and conquered during the Second World War incorporated into existing...
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    Federation — just as the regional synodal federation of the autonomous Memelland — retained the status of an ecclesiastical province within EKapU. After...
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    part was attached to Poland. Only the small Klaipėda Region (German: Memelland) was attached to Lithuania. The term Preußische Litauer (Prussian Lithuanians...
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    Soon after, Germany invaded the rest of Czechoslovakia and also gained Memelland (part of the former German Empire from 1871–1920) through the 1939 German...
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  • island of Ibiza. In March 1939, MSK was among German forces occupying Memelland. Under the command of Oblt. Wilhelm Henningsen the MSK trained for future...
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    plenipotentiary did not arrive at once to negotiate to turn over the Memelland to Germany the Luftwaffe would raze Kaunas to the ground. As a result...
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    trans-Memel suburb was disentangled from Tilsit (with the rest of the Memelland/Klaipėda Region detached from the Province of East Prussia) in 1920. The...
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    resulted in the city's annexation by Lithuania, which lasted until all of Memelland rejoined Germany following the 1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania. After...
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    squadron, later regiment (of three squadrons) of the French Air Force) Memelland East Prussia Lithuanian: Nemunas Belarusian: Нёман, romanized: Nyoman...
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    country. The majority of Prussian Lithuanians living in East Prussia and in Memelland (since 1945 the Klaipėda Region of Lithuania) belonged to the Evangelical...
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    at the end of the 19th century when the area, known in German as the Memelland, was part of Prussia (Germany), they were known as "Prūsai". After World...
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    ("Sudetenland") 23 March 1939 Parts of the Lithuanian State Railway Railways in Memelland 1 November 1939 Parts of the Polish State Railways (PKP) Lines in regions...
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    January 1923 in the Klaipėda Region (also known as the Memel Territory or Memelland). The region, located north of the Neman River, was detached from East...
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  • Nazis did not want to accept the loss of the Klaipėda Region (German: Memelland). The Nazis sponsored anti-Lithuanian organizations in the region. In...
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    East Prussia after the ultimatum took force; the Klaipėda Region/Memelland is depicted in blue and East Prussia in red....
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    89% in the East Prussian plebiscite district). The Klaipėda Territory (Memelland), a League of Nations mandate since 1920, was occupied by the Lithuanian...
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    Borchers was born in Šilutė (German: Heydekrug), Klaipėda Region (German: Memelland), Lithuania in a German either Prussian Lithuanian or Memellander family...
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    Versailles, the DFB had to adapt its structure. The Saarland, Danzig, and the Memelland were detached from Germany and East Prussia was cut off from the main...
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    games to be relocated. Lithuania was not invited by Germany due to the Memelland/Klaipėda region controversy.[citation needed] Under the proposal of the...
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    as the so-called Volksdeutsche. Via Lauksargiai (former Laugszargen, Memelland) and a German resettlement camp in Werneck at Würzburg, Van der Bellen's...
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  • homeland. Lothar Kilian was born in Nidden, Prussia, Germany, (after 1919 Memelland (Klaipėda Region), then Nida, Lithuania) on 12 October 1911. He gained...
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