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In the coming Nazi New Order, other lands were considered for annexation sooner or later, for instance North Schleswig, German-speaking Switzerland, and the zone of intended German settlement in north-eastern France, where a Gau or a Reichskommissariat centred on Burgundy was intended for creation, and which Heinrich Himmler wanted to turn into ...
Projected German administrative divisions of occupied European territories: Greater Germanic Reich (theoretical planning mostly) German annexations Czechoslovak areas annexed Reichsgau Sudetenland; Polish areas annexed. Reichsgau Danzig-West Prussia; Reichsgau Wartheland; Bialystok District and Zichenau annexation to Gau East Prussia; Belgian ...
When Germany permitted residents of Austria to vote [clarification needed] on 5 March 1933, three special trains, boats and trucks brought such masses to Passau that the SS staged a ceremonial welcome. [37] Gunther wrote that by the end of 1933 Austrian public opinion about German annexation was at least 60% against. [36]
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 ...
Territory ceded to Germany in 1871 and its pre-1790 administrative entities. In a letter justifying the decision to annex these territories to a unified Germany , Emperor William explained to Empress Eugenie that the real motivation was strictly military, using the annexed territories as a military glacis to keep the French border away from the ...
They were not formally annexed, but were placed under the protection of Germany as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. Ethnic Germans living in the area became citizens of Germany. A separate native government was retained, but a German Reichsprotektor was appointed who wielded effective executive control over the territory. [5]
The Munich Agreement [a] was an agreement reached in Munich on 30 September 1938, by Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom, the French Republic, and Fascist Italy.The agreement provided for the German annexation of part of Czechoslovakia called the Sudetenland, where more than three million people, mainly ethnic Germans, lived. [1]
The Greater Germanic Reich (German: Großgermanisches Reich), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (German: Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation), [2] was the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II. [3]