I liken it more to the Nazis marching into the Rhineland, than the Sudetenland.
In the Bloggers & Personal forum, on a thread titled The Crimean Plebiscite - it’s the Sudetenland 76 years later, dfwgator wrote:
I liken it more to the Nazis marching into the Rhineland, than the Sudetenland.
Don’t fall for the revisionist review which claims that if the French had stopped Hitler from taking over there would have been no WWII. The Saar was an important industrial region to Germany when the country finally united inder Bismarck. It was handed over to the French along with Alsace (Strasbourg which is across the river)) as reparations.
The place was populated by German speakers along the Rhine which spearated it from France. Whe Hitler held his plebicite the place voted 80% to return. After WWII another plebicite was held under the strictest supervision and the result was the same 80%. The French knew this. I was there before and during when that 2nd vote was held.It was fascinating to see women in the major German cities adorned with French clothing partcularly high heel shoes, but The women of the region actually refused to wear Fremch fashions during that time.
Sudetenland was different there were German speakers who prefered to live unmolested for ceturies under the Czech style of democratic government. The takeover of the Sudentenland is probably a better example. That division by the way was culinated after the invasion by Poland and Germany of Czechoslovakia. Which also never gets mentioned in revisionist historic reviews.