Memel
Americannoun
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the German name for Klaipeda
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the lower course of the Neman River
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Reason: Hitler seized last spring the only important Lithuanian harbor, Memel.
From Time Magazine Archive
They did it after the invasion of Austria, after Czechoslovakia, after Memel, after Poland, even after Norway�that is, some of the people.
From Time Magazine Archive
When Napoleon and Alexander I of Russia met in 1807 to carve up Europe in the Treaty of Tilsit, the site for preliminary talks was an elaborate barge anchored in the River Memel in Prussia.
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Earlier in the week, bald and black-mustached General Ivan Bagramian�the onetime Armenian herdsman and train mechanic who first reached the Gulf of Riga last summer�reached the sea again, this time 15 miles north of Memel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Practically without further opposition all of northern East Prussia as far as the river Memel was in General Rennenkampf's hands, Tilsit, Labiau, Tapiau, Gerdauen, Korschen, Rastenburg, Angerburg, and Goldap indicate the limits of his conquest.
From The Story of the Great War, Volume II (of VIII) History of the European War from Official Sources by Churchill, Allen L. (Allen Leon)
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