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The Rhineland is a loosely defined area of Western Germany along the Rhine, chiefly its middle section, sometimes encompassing parts of Belgium. It is the main industrial heartland of Germany because
Deutsches Eck, Koblenz
Roman and barbarian parts of the Rhineland
Attack by the Swedish army on the Spanish troops in Bacharach during the Thirty Years' War
The remilitarisation of the Rhineland began on 7 March 1936, when military forces of Nazi Germany entered the Rhineland, which directly contravened the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties. N
Rhineland
…presence in the region was banned, a restriction which the government of Weimar Germany pledged to honor in the 1925 Locarno Treaties. Nazi Germany remilitarized the territory in 1936 as part of a diplomatic test of will three years before the outbreak of the Second World War. To the west the area stretches to the borders…
Location of the Rhineland, as defined by the Treaty of Versailles, along the Rhine
Baron Konstantin von Neurath in 1939. As Foreign Minister in 1936, Neurath played a decisive role in German decision-making that led to the remilitarisation.
Goebbels, Hitler, and von Blomberg
General Maurice Gamelin, the French Supreme Commander, 1936