Saarland

The history of this territory bordering on France (and Luxemburg)

with its rich mining and steel industry is complex, and it is as a
result of a plebiscite in 1935, conducted in accordance with the
Treaty of Versailles, that it became as Saarland part of the
German Reich.

Rhineland

It is located west of the Rhine River and encompasses the states
of Saarland and Rhineland-Palantinate and portions of Baden-
Wrttemberg, Hesse, and North RhineWestphalia. The chief city of
the Rhineland is Cologne. In 1936 the Rhineland became the most
prosperous area of Germany.
Anschluss
In March 1938, Hitler made his next move: the Anschluss. The
Germans poured into Austria, hitting the Austrian community by
storm. The Austrian public overwhelmingly embraced the Nazi
platform and attitudes; in a referendum, 98% of Austrians voted for
annexation union with Germany.

Sudetenland

Sudetenland later became a major source of contention between
Germany and Czechoslovakia, and in 1938 participants at the
Munich Conference, yielding to Adolf Hitler, transferred it to
Germany.

Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia

Western region of Czechoslovakia, occupied by German troops on
March 15, 1939 and declared by Adolf Hitler to be a German
"protectorate" (aeuphemistic term for a subjugated state)
belonging to the Reich. On the eve of the German occupation,
118,310 Jews lived in the region, whose capital was Prague.





Protective Zone

The special status of the zone was already created in the initial
German-Slovak treaty of 23 March 1939, which defined the
protective relationship between Germany and the Slovak
State.
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The zone was codified by the German-Slovak treaty of
August 28, 1939, which was signed in Bratislava

Memel district


The Memel district was a portion of Germany lost to Lithuania as a
result of World War I. Hitler secured its return in 1939. It was
Hitlers last territorial gain before the war broke out.