Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rhineland so recently freed of the last French troops (TIME, July 14), life continued exciting last week for "Separatists" (advocates of an independent Rhineland Republic) and suspect French-sympathizers. Their noses were punched, their houses wrecked, their clothes torn, their shops gutted with delirious crowds of Pan-German youths storming up and down the ''liberated provinces...
...Rhineland, in the courtyard of Mainz's Grand Ducal Palace, the French 8th Infanterie de Ligne stood at attention last week, each poilu perspiring profusely beneath his mountainous load: haversack, blanket roll, gas mask, mess kit and an extra pair of steel-shod marching boots lashed high above all. The sword of General Adolphe Guillaumat flashed...
Evacuation of the Rhineland has been discussed for nine years. It has been in progress for four and a half years. The outside world paid little attention last week to what was the passing of actually the last French soldiers from German soil. In Germany it was the most momentous hour since the Armistice. Bonfires blazed along the Rhine from Switzerland to Holland. Churchbells rang in towns throughout Germany. In Berlin a battery of howitzers shook the Linden trees with an earsplitting 21-gun salute. The Reich swam in beer...
...Kaiserslautern, south of Mainz, the celebration took a more serious turn. The superpatriotic crowd turned to raiding and wrecking the homes of "Separatists" people who had advocated the formation of a separate "Rhineland Republic" during the French occupation...
Germans who committed political crimes or acts of treason between Nov. 9, 1918 and Dec. 1, 1924 rejoiced exceedingly last week. The six-year period thus delimited was the era of attempted putsches to restore the Hohenzollerns, the period when "Separatists" in the Rhineland agitated to set up a Rhineland Republic. Last week the German Reichstag with a stately gesture wiped this huge, dirty slate clean, declared a general amnesty for the benefit of persons so fortunate as to have committed their political crimes or treasons between the dates specified...