[2] After the incorporation of Klaipėda Region into Lithuania in 1924, the Defence Ministry purchased some of the buildings of the former Macikai manor near Šilutė and repurposed them to use as barracks for the 7th Infantry Regiment's 2nd Battalion.

[5] In cooperation with the Polish resistance movement, they organized escapes of British POWs through the port cities of Gdynia and Gdańsk to neutral Sweden.

[5] As of April 1944, the camp held mostly British and American POWs, but also Canadians, Australians, New Zealanders, Poles, South Africans, Czechs, Dutchmen, Norwegians and a Belgian.

Nearly 900 men brought to Klaipėda were shipped by the commercial vessel Instenburg to the port of Świnoujście (then Swinemunde) near Szczecin bay; the journey was 60 hours long.

[8] Numerous remains of prisoners from the Nazi Germany’s POW camp were discovered buried under a road in Village Armalėnai, Šilutė district, in 2011.

Even though official documents would often falsify the causes of prisoner deaths, it is a known fact that people would be executed by firing squad or exterminated in gas chambers; some of them would die from cold and hunger.

Even though the irrigation was never completed, the remaining area of the cemetery is now smaller, because its western side had been washed and eroded by the River Šyša for an extended period of time, and its northern and eastern territory was used as pastures and tilled land.

Today, the camp complex in Macikai consists of the camp-site, a solitary cell, the prisoner cemetery, a bath, and possibly barracks.

During the ceremony, the remains of the prisoners, which had been transferred from the discovered mass grave and re-interred near the old Macikai cemetery, were consecrated by Catholic, Evangelical Lutheran, and orthodox bishops.