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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Fid, post: 4328353, member: 7724&quot;][ATTACH=full]355335[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>here you see it better. Tilsit was on the river Memel that was the frontier to Lithuania.</p><p>it may well be that the army guys wouldn&#039;t have found it on a map</p><p>or</p><p>that the immigrant thought it better to declare himself Russian</p><p>or</p><p>that he was from one of the villages outside the city but north of the river (there were a few )</p><p>or</p><p>that the army guys were US-Germans and would have known the city of Tilsit but not the whole county of Tilsit that was full of Lithuanians that fled to Prussia because of the freedom that was missing in Lithuania which was under Russian rule from 1795 to 1918.</p><p>nobody said it was easy.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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