„The district of Klaipeda was incorporated into Lithuania in 1923 with autonomous status. A census was carried out in the district in 1925. using the criterion of language to define ethnicity. The inhabitants of the district, whose total number was 141,000, declared their respective languages as follows: German (61.300 people, or 43.5% of the total population), Lithuanian (38,900. or 27.6% of the total). „Klaipedan” (35,600, or 25.2% of the total), and other languages (5,200 persons, or 3.7% of the total).” Piotr Eberhardt, Ethnic groups and population changes in twentieth-century Central-Eastern Europe: history, data, and analysis, London 2003 Ed.Sharpe, s. 40, ISBN 978-0-7656-0665-5. wersja elektroniczna.
