[Above: Period map of Memel and the region.]

[Above: A very rare sheet of overprinted stamps for Memel - 15 cent.]

[Above: A very rare sheet of overprinted stamps for Memel - 60 cent.]

[Above: Extremely rare error stamps! Note the overprint is inverted.]

[Above: Much rarer than the semi-official Memel overprints seen above, these are private overprints.]

[Above: A strip of Memel overprinted stamps sent to New York City. Note even the registration label is overprinted 'Memel'.]

[Above: Note that this example includes a German postage stamp -- this was often allowed, or rather overlooked, during the first turbulant days of liberation. We see this happened in Austria, Sudetenland, Belgium, Poland, Russia, etc.]

[Above: Two different envelopes from the days of liberation in Memel. This time we see Lithuanian stamps being allowed with German stamps. Postamt Memel (Post Office Memel) and 'Pogegen' and 'Jugnaten' are towns in Memel.]

[Above: A philatelic sheet showing special Memel cancels on Lithuanian stamps.]

[Above: A German women tucking flowers into the belts of German soldiers.]

[Above: Dr. Ernst Neumann, leader of the Germans in Memel and head of the political group 'Die Sozialistische Volksgemeinschaft des Memelgebiets'.]

[Above: Dr. Ernst Neumann done by the spectacular artist Wolfgang Willrich.]

[Above: A special Memel cancel celebrating Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday in 1939.]