This is a registered letter sent in 1942 from Tauroggen (now Tauragė, Lithuania) to Schönebeck (Elbe), Germany. Despite being one of the border towns with Prussia, Tauragė is one of the very few places in Lthuania that has been legally obtained by the Germans without the use of force. The marriage between Ludwig of Brandenburg and Liudvika Karolina Radvilaitė (Ludwika Karolina Radziwiłł in Polish, a noble lady from the well known Radvilos/Radziwiłł family which owned the Tauragė estate until then) in 1691 made Tauragė under German possession until it was annexed by the Russian empire.
On june 22nd of 1941, Tauragė was captured by Nazi Germany, it was the very first day of the operation Barbarossa which was the German offense against the Soviet Union during WW2.
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