Teutonic Knights of the Order of the Sword built a fortress on the site of the present city of Memel in the thirteenth century, and throughout the Middle Ages the Niemen was navigated by traders with ...

To Germany's protests the Allies answered that although the city of Memel was largely German, the hinterland was Lithuanian in sympathy. Furthermore, Memel was the only outlet to the sea for the newly ...

KAUNAS, Lithuania, March 22, 1939 (UP) - Lithuania surrendered Memel to Nazi Germany today under an implied ultimatum which said that if the annexation was effected peacefully Germany would ...

all persons who were residents of Memel before 1923 were to be regarded as German citizens. Denunciation of the past has saved thousands of Jews from the danger of losing their Lithuanian citizenship.

The Lithuanian Party in the Memel Landtag today interpellated the local government with regard to the affair in Punimum, a town located in the autonomous region of Memel, where 50 Lithuanian Jews ...