Memel → Germany

Wann

22. März 1939

Art

Gebietsveränderung

Koordinaten

55.39° N, 21.64° E

Government

Germany

Former government

Lithuania

History

After a German ultimatum, Lithuania surrendered Memel and the territory was incorporated into Germany. Memel been a province in East Prussia before WWI. Afte…

Source map

Lithuania · 1926 · 1:750,000 · L. Friederichsen and Co, Hamburg

Im Gebiet platziert, nicht an einem genauen Ort.

German diplomatic demand on Lithuania

On 20 March 1939, the German Reich's foreign minister Joachim von Ribbentrop presented an oral ultimatum to Juozas Urbšys, foreign minister of Lithuania. Germany demanded that Lithuania give up the Klaipėda Region, which had been detached from Germany after World War I, or the Wehrmacht would invade Lithuania and the de facto Lithuanian capital Kaunas would be bombed.

Aus Wikipedia, CC BY-SA · Artikel lesen

• European Borders, World War II (1938–1945)Stanford Spatial History Lab (M. De Groot)Stanford Spatial History Lab: scholarly reuse, no commercial use
• COW Territorial Change v6Correlates of War Project · nennt es „Lithuania → Germany (annexation)“Correlates of War: free use with citation