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The occupied Rhineland made up 6.5% of Germany's total area and had a population of about seven million. While the negotiations for the Treaty of Versailles were in progress, the region was under a state of siege and the number of occupation troops stood at approximately 240,000 (220,000 French and 20,000 Belgian).
A demilitarized zone (DMZ or DZ) [1] is an area in which treaties or agreements between states, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel. A DZ often lies along an established frontier or boundary between two or more military powers or alliances.
Transforming Occupation in the Western Zones of Germany: Politics, Everyday Life and Social Interactions, 1945–55 (Bloomsbury, 2018). ISBN 978-1-350-04923-9; Golay, John Ford. The Founding of the Federal Republic of Germany (University of Chicago Press, 1958) Jähner, Harald. Aftermath: Life in the Fallout of the Third Reich, 1945–1955 ...
The American historian Gerhard Weinberg called the demilitarised status of the Rhineland the "single most important guarantee of peace in Europe" by preventing Germany from attacking its western neighbours and, since the demilitarised zone rendered Germany defenseless in the West, by making it impossible to attack its eastern neighbours by ...
An area from the eastern part of West Prussia and the southern part of East Prussia Warmia and Masuria, to Poland (see East Prussian plebiscite); the majority of the Slavic Masurians voted to remain part of Germany. The Saar area was to be under the control of the League of Nations for 15 years, after which a vote between France and Germany ...
Three zones were agreed on, each covering roughly a third of Germany's territories: a British zone in the north-west, an American zone in the south and a Soviet zone in the east. France was later given a zone in the far west of Germany, carved out of the British and American zones. [9] The division of Germany was official on 1 August 1945.
By attempting to meet the payments, it intended to show the Allies that the demands were beyond Germany's economic means. [8] Map of the occupied Rhineland. In the north, the eastward-bulging area around Duisburg, Essen and Dortmund (dotted) largely corresponds to the Ruhr region that was occupied in 1923.
The American occupation zone in Germany (German: Amerikanische Besatzungszone), also known as the US-Zone, and the Southwest zone, [1] was one of the four occupation zones established by the Allies of World War II in Germany west of the Oder–Neisse line in July 1945, around two months after the German surrender and the end of World War II in Europe.