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Wehrkreis
Extracted from the Wikipedia article Military district (Germany).
Wehrkreis I
Wehrkreis I was headquartered at Königsberg and contained the territory of the German exclave of East Prussia, making it also a coastal state on the Baltic Sea coast. Wehrkreis I was the home district of the I Army Corps, which was formed in October 1934 from the 1st Division of the Reichswehr. Wehrkreis I was expanded to include the Memel Territory after the German ultimatum to Lithuania (accepted by Lithuania on 23 March 1939); the Wehrkreis was later given additional territory in the form of the Bialystok District and the Sudauen region.