The Neman, Nioman, Nemunas, Niemen, or Memel, is a river in Europe that rises in central Belarus and flows through Lithuania then forms the northern border of Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia's western excl
Neman near Alytus
The Neman near Grodno
Neman opposite Kaliningrad Oblast (Russian exclave)
The "Deutschlandlied", officially titled "Das Lied der Deutschen", is a German poem written by August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben. A popular song which was made for the cause of creating a unif
Neman
…made the river the border separating the Memel Territory from German East Prussia as of 1920. At that time, Germany's Weimar Republic adopted the Deutschlandlied as its official national anthem. In the first stanza of the song, written in 1841, the river is mentioned as the eastern border of a (then politically…
Facsimile of Hoffmann von Fallersleben's manuscript of "Das Lied der Deutschen"