What the records say
- When
- 22 Mar 1939
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 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
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania
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.
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2 sources record it
- 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 · names it “Lithuania → Germany (annexation)”Correlates of War: free use with citation
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