Why Klaipėda Is The Most Important and German City in Lithuania?
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Please bear in mind, that in Lithuania/ Germany treaty of borders, signed in 1928, Germany recognized Klaipėda and Klaipėda region as part of Lithuania.
I was about to argue, but i did research and realised that they were given a seperate parliament and autonomy
and after some time occupied Lithuania
@@TheDmSilver prussia is not germany. Prussia is baltics occupied by germans. Kaliningrad is baltics occupied by russians
@@TheDmSilver tuo metu Lietuva buvo okupuota tsrs, ir vokiečiai Lietuvą okupavo jau kaip tsrs teritoriją. Po keturių metų vokiečių kariuomenė grįžo atgal į savo tėvynę ir Lietuvą vėl okupavo tsrs, tame tarpe ir Klaipėdą.
@@ceslovassvetkauskas4766Aciu lietuvis! Ar lietuvė
I live in Klaipėda myself. The city is truly unique, You'd travel around Lithuania and Klaipėda, together with Lithuania minor, is a completely different world.
I visited earlier this year and enjoyed my time a lot. I will say however that my boyfriend and I both found Klaipeda to be more ghetto feeling than Kaunas and Vilnius and that it had a slightly negative energy to it. But we love Lithuania and will probably visit again one day. The food we had there was awesome. Love the way the Baltics stand for freedom these days. Europe should take some important lessons from them.
Klaipeda has the largest population of russians outside of Vilnius’s Soviet neighborhoods, that may very well be the reason why. Klaipedas suburbs on the other hand are really well known around Lithuania and some of the best in Lithuania
Lived there for a few years. That feeling you mentioned is real and it hides behind the rich history, beautiful city center and easy access to sea. Couldn't stay long after the war in Ukraine started because my job was working with people and with so many russian speaking / russian roots having people there were many arguments and division became much more apparent.
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My mom taught English in Klaipeda for 3 years around 2000, I visited twice. Loved Lithuania and the Lithuanians. Klaipeda is not the most tourist friendly city, more like real Lithuanian life, outside of the beach towns of the nearby Curonian Spit. I was told Klaipeda was where Hitler gave his "thousand-year Reich" speech and they recently unearthed dead French soldiers from Napoleons March on Moscow. An interesting spot was the sculpture park which was a cemetery where drunks hung out so the Soviets in their infinite wisdom tore out the headstones and turned them into roads, (my mom would tell me to look down and there would be someone's name on the street), leaving the bodies and turning the park into a sculpture park that would have an annual sculpture competition where the winner would remain in the park. Another interesting spot was a nearby brewery, excellent beer, Lithuanians learned from Germans many years ago, and you could line up in the back and they would fill your container with beer for about 50 cents at the time and it wasn't unusual to see Lithuanian construction workers drinking beer for breakfast, real drinking was the hard stuff, not beer. Lithuanians are a tough and very tall people, one of the basketball powers of Europe. They are impressively rooted to the land, every Lithuanian seems to have a secret mushroom patch, and they take good care of their forests and do excellent woodwork. If one was to pick a town to visit in the Baltics I'd recommend Tallinn Estonia but Lithuania itself and the capitol Vilnius are well worth visiting.
The sculpture park is near my apartment. I go for a walk there quite often. They renovated it extensively and put monuments for French soldiers. There are some graves from old cemetery left. There are fragments of headstones displayed for a memory of people and there are a few big tombs for famous people still burred there. This park is a cozy, a bit creepy place with dim lights and giant trees to walk in during autumn evenings.
I definitely have a secret mushroom patch :D
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I grew up in Klaipeda and remember the things you wrote. A lot has changed since 2000’s and in a good way ☺️ you should visit again and see how Klaipeda became a more cozy and friendly city 😊
You forgot to mention that Klaipeda was the most significantly invested Lithuanian city during the interwar period.
My great grandmother was in the Klaipeda city square and saw Hitler speech there. They fled the city next day hiding all jewelry and money in house walls.
But whole story was crazy to hear from her of the first hand experience of WW2. She died 4 years ago and was 98 year old.
Amazing
Prussian Lithuania was not only Klaipeda / Memel but also pretty much all of today’s Kaliningrad region, particularly in its rural areas .
East of Königsberg majority of people were Lithuanians. Then after 19 century plague a lot of Germans mainly from Zaltzburg moved inn
Так у нас в Калининграде и сейчас литовцев много. Мы их не обижаем. Как правило хорошие трудолюбивые люди
Not really, only Memelland and Kleinlithauen.
XVIII century
Skolk litovskix škol tam?@@user-pz6ls4uk8k
Memel, the city was founded as Memel and has a 800 year German history.
I thought that prussians were a germanic tribe, but it appears it's actually one of the baltics, even the language of old prussian is more similar to lithuanian. 🤷
Į Prūsiją žmonės važiavo net iš Austrijos. Jie buvo kolonizatoriai svetimų žemių. Mačiau kaip vienas palikuonis tų kolonizatorių per televiziją dalinosi protėvių pasakojimais: "tipo, žmonės laimės ir geresnio gyvenimo važiuoja ieškoti į Ameriką, o mes Ameriką radome Prūsijoje..."
1,31 WTF with a Map? Kingdom of Lithuania was not a Part of Russia.
Klaipeda - blessing for whole Lithuania and basically is main reason Lithuanias GDP keeps growing despite the fact other Baltic Republics have slight downfall. To be honest I think it's the main reason why Germany has brigade near Suvalki. Thank you Klaipeda from Vilnius😅😅😅
Klaipeda is why Lithuania dominates Latvia in raw economic figures.😇😇
lithuania dominates latvia in majority of economic aspects because its just country with bigger population by 1 million
@domasabrom2994 nah not that simple. Lithuania has Vilnius- Kaunas - Klaipeda economic chain. The distances covered in transportation alone is an economic generation. Latvias economic synergy is in one city- Riga.
@@1MuchButteR1 latvia has only one city, rest just like provinces with less than 100k or even 50k, more than 50% latvian population live in riga metro area so again what you expect, lithuanian economy in few years will be bigger than latvian and estonian economies combined, I think it is already now, Latvia+ Estonia GDP PPP 140+ billion USD now while Lithuania alone 145 billion USD+ also purchasing power per capita in lithuania is 51000$ per citizen now while in estonia which often is said as best living country in baltics its 45000$ per citizen which is less and distance keeps growing in favour of lithuania, Estonian economy is in decline now while lithuania is in best growth in 30 years, also RIGA WHOLE METROPOLITAN AREA GDP is 21,5 billion USD While VILNIUS METEOPOLITAN AREA GDP IS 30 BILLION USD WHICH IS 50% MORE AND THAT IS A HUGE DIFFERENCE, you can check this statistics are not from my head but from verified sources
Very good telling and graphics of your videos
Klaipėda was never a German city. Lithuanians have always lived here and were the absolute majority throughout the ages. The Holy Roman Empire baptized but never killed people. There was an attempt to Germanize this land, but it failed. The Prussians were not Germans either, and Kionigsberg was not a German city.
Not true most were Germans stop the lies I know because my grandparents lived next to Memel only after Germans lost the ww1 lithuanians started to populate Klaipėda and russians
@@zgames2stop lies. Lithuanians lived there before Klaipeda was built or germans arrived. Germans were occupants
@@tomastomastomas1521 Lithuanians didint live their Curonians lived there there baltic not lithuanian
@@MagneticMania it does not change the fact that germans were occupants in our lands
@@zgames2 The Teutonic Order was not a German order. From 1252to 1525, the Teutonic Order ruled only Klaipėda Castle. And all the lands around the castle were inhabited by people of Baltic origin. According to the genetic code, in 1938 y. Klaipėda was inhabited by 80% of Baltic origin and 20% of others, mixed. Check your genetic code.
F yeah, Lithuania mentioned. And a town i live in... nice
And name Klaipėda is older name then memel so no squer memel memes
I like how narrator is saying city name in Latvian. 😂 Actually curonians inhabited this area, long before anyone else. And Latvians gave parts of Southern Kurzeme to Lithuania for them to gain access to sea. Kursenieki a subgroup of Latvians inhabited coastline from South Kurzeme till Danzig.
Am I? must be my natural inclination
Lithuania should return Memel to Germany, if they want to be truly European country.
9:17 that's so wrong... A huge part of the city was destroyed by the soviets.
Between the end of WWI and 1923 there was also a small war, when Latvia declared war on Germany and cut off a small slice of Prussia, which was then given to Lithuania, is that the 30km coastline Lithuania had before 1923 or were those some other lands?
Uostas neužšąlantis, tai ir yra svarbu jūrų transportui.
Klaipėda mentioned 😎
Also klaipėda is the only big port in Lithuania and it has the biggest one
Prussia has always been Lithuania, the Lithuanian tribes lived there
Nope, Prussians are their own people
Teutonic Knights not German Knights.
Literally the same thing.
@@SairanBurghausen similar, like Roman vis-a-vis Italian, depends on context
Teutonic knights is English, neither German nor Latin.
@@roccosoldi8678 They were mostly from Saxony and Westfalen, considered themselves German and the name of their order literally had the words "german knights". But yes, I agree and I understand what you're saying.
@@kibun1 Huh?? Are you trying to say that the name "teutonic knights" is in the english language? That's the only way your statement can make sense.
Or are you trying to say that many of them being saxon somehow makes them anglo-saxon and therefore English?? My teutonic ancestors would laugh at such a suggestion.
You might need to change the title of this video, because it doesn't make sense. Because first it says "Why Klaipėda Is The Most Important" and then randomly it says "and German City in Lithuania?" This doesn't mean anything, do you mean it's the most important and most German or that it is the most important and is German in general?
Don’t over think titles
@@GeoPerspective"Overthink" you mean?
Ah, a video of my city.
Most northern German city.
I always thought Lithuanians lived in that region also
@@nuznikasit’s pro-Lithuanian propaganda.
*Klaipėda
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After WW1 and the Versailles Treaty Memel was meant to be an independent Free State. It was under French administration until 1923 when the Lithuanians invaded and occupied the city and renamed it Klaipeda. Allied Powers e.g. UK, France all protested Lithuania's invasion of the city. At the League of Nations it was agreed that Memelland would be an autonomous region within Lithuania - this was called the Memel Statue. This existed until March 1939 when Lithuania ceded Memelland back to Germany. After WW2 Memelland was given by the Soviets to Lithuania like they did with Wilno from Poland to Lithuania.
Absurd. Goebbels propaganda.
*Why Memel Is The Most Important and German City in Lithuania
Having hard time learning current name or just tarded?
Someone's high on copium
Most folk know it as Memel, even today.
no they don’t
@@svolfron6496Also Baltic name.
The city is better known as Memel.
Memel who?
Klaipėda not Memel. Karaliaučius not Kaliningrad. Vytautas not Witold.
And Gdansk not Danzig @@Degenerated00
@@sheggers3990 Obviously. What a beautiful and vibrant city. Went there for vacation couple years ago.
@@Mendogology Memelburg, the name of the city before the cleansing of germans from there.
Vilnius is a Polish city the majority before ww2 was Polish
Maybe because Poland occupied Lithuanian capital in 1920?
Vilnius is and always was the most important Lithuanian city after it became capital of Lithuania under Grand Duke Gediminas in 1323. Read some history before commenting..
For Poland Vilnius is like Crimea for russians.
@@Genyyys Lithuania always was diverse so obviously Vilnius was too
@Genyyys It was actually occupied by russians way longer than by Poland. 200years ago it had 0% Lithuanian population because there was basically a genocide 😢😢😢
The majority identified as Polish due to cultural and ruling influence of Polonization but had always been Baltic genetically. It’s not like the folks could travel and migrate en masse back then until the actual Russians flooding the Baltic region after WWII.