Memel
Americannoun
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the German name for Klaipeda
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the lower course of the Neman River
Example Sentences
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Adolf Hitler did not think that last week was a propitious time to take over Memel.
From Time Magazine Archive
As if playing at naval conquest, he traveled to Memel on the pocket battleship Deutschland, followed by 60 other fighting vessels including two battleships, three cruisers, two destroyer flotillas, three torpedo-boat flotillas, numerous small craft.
From Time Magazine Archive
Cabinet members had struck out all reference to Austria, Memel, Eupen and Malmedy, keeping those possible objectives of Adolf Hitler beyond the pale of polite conversation.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
On his return to England he was directed to proceed on the staff of Lord Hutchinson to Berlin, but on his arrival at Memel was despatched to the Russian headquarters as British commissioner.
From Through Russian Snows A Story of Napoleon's Retreat from Moscow by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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