The Klaipėda Region or Memel Territory was defined by the 1919 Treaty of Versailles in 1920 and refers to the northernmost part of the German province of East Prussia, when, as Memelland, it was put u
Banknote of emergency money from 1922 issued and used in Memel
Postage stamps of the Klaipėda Region in use between 1920 and 1925. The upper stamp is French with an overprint in German "MEMEL". The other stamps are Lithuanian, one with an overprint in Lithuanian and in German, the other without. The latter one was issued especially for postal use in the Klaipėda Region.
The first trial of the Nazis in Europe, which took place in Kaunas in 1935. The accused claimed that the Klaipėda Region should be part of Germany, not Lithuania, and spread propaganda, prepared for an armed uprising.
President Smetona Avenue was renamed Adolf Hitler Street in 1939
Klaipėda is a city in Lithuania on the Baltic Sea coast. It is the third-largest city in Lithuania, the fifth-largest city in the Baltic states, the capital of Klaipėda County, the only major seaport
Klaipėda Region
…Memel Agricultural Party Klaipėda town The Lithuanian–Belorussian Soviet Socialist Republic (A.K.A. Litbel…
Quite summer evening in the port city Klaipeda
Klaipėdos universitetas, SMF
Preserved historic timber framed architecture