Word: rhineland
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rhineland the U.S. occupation army chose a governor for the largest political entity yet carved out of conquered Germany...
...Silesian and East Prussian areas to be given to the Soviet Union's new Poland) ; the U.S. in Bavaria, in the South; Britain in a central and western area including Leipzig, Dusseldorf, and the ports of Bremen and Hamburg on the strategic North Sea coastline ; France in the Rhineland (all of the areas were still to be defined exactly...
...Germany reoccupied the Rhineland and signed the anti-Comintern pact with Japan...
...Aachen, first Rhineland city to be freed, the process advanced a stage further. German workers formed themselves into a trade union, denounced Naziism, demanded an eight-hour day and the right to strike...
Coal for France. The fall of Coblenz, headquarters of U.S. occupation after World War I, was only an incident in a swift clatter of events in the southern Rhineland. The Nazis had already lost the Rhineland north of the Moselle; now they were fast losing the rest of it, from Coblenz to the Karlsruhe corner. Soon the coal of the Saar would be flowing into fuel-starved France...