Memel → Germany

Quando

22 de mar. de 1939

Tipo

Mudança territorial

Coordenadas

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

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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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• European Borders, World War II (1938–1945)Stanford Spatial History Lab (M. De Groot)Stanford Spatial History Lab: scholarly reuse, no commercial use
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