Memel Territory annexed by the German Reich in 1939

The police in Memel hands over their batons at Reichsfuhrer of the SS Heinrich Himmler's command on the 24th of March in 1939. Memel Territory, which formerly belonged to East Prussia, had been occupied by French troops after World War I according to the Treaty of Versailles. Lithuania annexed the territory in 1923, from 1926 on the state of emergency came into operation. On the 23rd of march in 1939, troops of the German Reich invaded the Memel Territory, Adolf Hitler established a law about the reunification with the German Reich on board of the ironclad Deutschland'. The Memel Territory was integrated into Prussia

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