| Title |
Latvijos ir Estijos požiūris į Klaipėdos atplėšimą nuo Lietuvos 1939 metais / |
| Translation of Title |
Latvia and Estonia's view to the separation of Klaipėda from Lithuania in 1939. |
| Authors |
Butkus, Zenonas ; Ilmjärv, Magnus |
| DOI |
10.15388/LIS.2009.36824 |
| Full Text |
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| Is Part of |
Lietuvos istorijos studijos.. Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla. 2009, t. 24, p. 118-135.. ISSN 1392-0448 |
| Abstract [eng] |
Estonia’s try to mediate in Germany and Lithuania’s argument on Klaipėda in 1938 by advising to give Klaipėda to Germany by good will before it they occupied it by force is not treated as an action directed against Lithuania either. That action was determined by Estonian military and diplomatic office’s belief that peace and stability can be preserved in Europe by satisfying Germany’s ethnically-based territorial requirements. That leaders also assumed that the most dangerous enemy of Estonia is the USSR which can also be resisted with the help of Germany, therefore no Baltic country could be in conflict with it. The loss of Klaipėda was considered by Estonia as an inevitable and imminent event whereas Latvia treated it as a reprehensible fact of German expansion that Lithuania has to face and experience hard. Yielding Klaipėda did not stabilise the international status of Baltic countries but worsened it because the danger of USSR aggression became more intense, especially and primarily for Estonia and Latvia. This fact only indicates one more time that the security of all three Baltic states is undivided. |
| Published |
Vilnius : Vilniaus universiteto leidykla |
| Type |
Journal article |
| Language |
Lithuanian |
| Publication date |
2009 |
| CC license |
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