VERSAILLES TREATY,
. Section X, Article 99.
MEMEL
Germany renounces in favor of the Principal Allied and Associated Powers all rights and title over the territories included between the Baltic, the north eastern frontier of East Prussia as defined in Article 28 of Part II (Boundaries of Germany) of the present Treaty and the former frontier between Germany and Russia. . v
Germany undertakes to accept the settlement made by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers in regard to these terri-
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tories, particularly in so far as concerns the nationality of the inhabitants.
Article 99 of the Versailles Treaty, ceding the territory of Memel in East Prussia to Allied control
Authors
Date: 28 June 1919
Literal Title: Section X[.] Memel Article 99.
Total Pages: 1
Language of Text: English
Source of Text: Nazi conspiracy and aggression (Office of United States Chief of Counsel for Prosecution of Axis Criminality. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Government Printing Office, 1946.)
Evidence Code: TC-8
Citation: IMT (page 941)
HLSL Item No.: 450649
Notes:The area was annexed by Lithuania in 1923. For the return of German control in 1939, see document TC 53A.