Tuhia he tomokanga mō tēnei wāhanga - I te mutunga o te pakanga, ka rere, ka peia rānei te iwi Tiamana me te Lithuanian o mua o East Prussia
ki ngā wāhanga ki te uru o Tiamana. I riro ano a Lithuania i te Soviet Union i te 1944 a ka whakauruhia te rohe o Memel ki te Lithuanian SSR hou i te 1945 i te wa i wehewehea ai te toenga o East Prussia i waenga i a Polani (ko nga taha tonga e rua-toru e hanga ana i te Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship) me te Soviet Union (ko te toenga o te rohe i hangaia ki te Kaliningrad Oblast).