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Much French opinion wanted the Rhineland, the section of Germany west of the Rhine river and the old focus of French ambition, to be detached from Germany as an independent country. In the end they settled for heavy German reparation payments , the military occupation of the Rhineland (1918–1930) and the demilitarization of it and an area ...
Revanchism was not a major cause of war in 1914 because it faded after 1880. J.F.V. Keiger says, "By the 1880s Franco-German relations were relatively good." [151] The French public had very little interest in foreign affairs and elite French opinion was strongly opposed to war with its more powerful neighbor. [152]
September 27, 1940: A Vichy law allows any foreigner "redundant to the French economy" to be interned among "groups of foreign workers". October 3, 1940: first law on the status of Jews. French Jewish citizens are excluded from civil service, army, education, the press, radio and film. "Surplus" Jews are excluded from the professions.
Paris made a few overtures to Berlin, but they were rebuffed, and after 1900 there was a threat of war between France and Germany over Germany's attempt to deny French expansion into Morocco. Great Britain was still in its "splendid isolation" mode and after a major agreement in 1890 with Germany, it seemed especially favorable toward Berlin.
Hurstfield, Julian G.: America and the French Nation, 1939–1945, 1986. online; replaces Langer's 1947 study of FDR and Vichy France. Hytier, Adrienne Doris: Two years of French foreign policy: Vichy, 1940–1942, Greenwood Press, 1974. Jackson, Julian: France: The Dark Years, 1940–1944 (2003) excerpt and text search; online edition [dead ...
French President Emmanuel Macron landed in Germany on Sunday for a three-day state visit followed by a bilateral cabinet meeting as the European Union's two biggest powers seek to show unity ahead ...
French and British troops sharing Christmas drinks at Kedange-sur-Canner, near Metz, 21 December 1939 Internment of French troops in Switzerland, June 1940. France had lots of armed forces in World War II, in part due to the German occupation.
“German-French relations are actually unique in international politics in terms of their cooperation and intensity," says Ronja Kempin, an analyst of Franco-German relations at the German ...