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Memel and Memel territory (a narrow strip of land along the Niemen's north bank) are old East Prussian land. They were given to Lithuania after World War I; Hitler took them back by a bloodless coup in the spring of 1939. Fighting for Memel as desperately as they fought for Aachen on the west front, the Germans last week threw in four reinforcement divisions, launched 30 counterattacks in one day. They even attempted, vainly, an amphibious attack behind the Russian lines. At week's end Bagramian isolated the post by a drive south of it which reached...
First to the Sea? In front of East Prussia and of Warsaw to the south, the Germans had four main bastions: Kaunas and Grodno on the Niemen River, Bialystok and Brest-Litovsk. Brilliant young General Ivan Chernyakovsky reached the Niemen on a 75-mile front, forced several crossings, established bridgeheads on the west bank, attacked Grodno. Early this week his army was joined there by that of General Georg Zakharov, and Grodno fell...
During the night of June 24, 1812 (Hitler started in the night of June 21), Napoleon crossed the Niemen with 363,000 men, the "army of 20 nations," many of them German. Just as the Nazis have a large proportion of mechanized troops, Napoleon had 80.000 cavalry...
...Army, 80,000 men, started their fateful march home. Thousands died of hunger, thousands more were trapped by the Russians as Napoleon tried to get back across the Berezina River, where the Germans also had heavy losses last week (see p. 17). On Dec. 20, his troops recrossed the Niemen. They had left 300,000 dead or prisoners in Russia...
...Those limits: "From the Maas" (the Meuse, which flows through northern France, Belgium and The Netherlands) "to the Memel" (or Niemen, now part of the dividing line between German and Russian Poland...