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Tilsit celebrating the integration of the Klaipeda Region, 1939

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Tilsit celebrating the integration of the Klaipeda Region, 1939

Image text:

The old, historic town hall of Tilsit is decorated with swastika flags and garlands on the occasion of a celebration marking the integration of the Memel Territory into the German Reich. Above is a banner reading "Tilsit welcomes the creator of the Greater German Reich." Right, the East Prussian flag.

Photographer:

Scherl

Date:

23.03.1939

Location:

Lithuania, Tilsit

Image ID:

00340002

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4955px x 3496px

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No model release, no property release. No commercial, merchandising or advertising use without release by SZ Photo

Copyright Notice:

Scherl/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo

Collection:

Historical archives

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Integration of the Memelland into the German Reich 24.03.1939
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Keywords:

National Socialism Nazi Third Reich unrest conflicts politics building historical German Reich German-Lithuanian treaty Germany Greater German Reich Greater Germany Nazism Prussia Sovetsk banner integration of Memelland lettering passer passersby slogan swastika
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Headline:

Tilsit celebrating the integration of the Klaipeda Region, 1939

Date:

23.03.1939

Photographer:

Scherl

Image ID:

00340002