[PAR35]

Show me where the article, as it exists now, says that the Germans annexed their former lands. This? “except for Alsace-Lorraine, a disputed territory which was placed under German administration (though not formally annexed).” Oops, no, that says the exact OPPOSITE of what your map does. (You can jump in and do a quick edit on the text, but that won’t make the annexation claim any more factual.)

The map is garbage, whatever language it is in.

And footnotes dealing with other aspects of the occupation are totally irrelevant. Point me to sources showing annexation.

[BroJoeK]

PAR35: "And footnotes dealing with other aspects of the occupation are totally irrelevant. Point me to sources showing annexation."

Response:
From the Vichy France article, Overview:

"...the civil jurisdiction of the Vichy government extended over the whole of metropolitan France, except for Alsace-Lorraine, a disputed territory which was placed under German administration (though not formally annexed)."

From "Vichy's racial policies and collaboration"

"Besides the concentration camps opened by Vichy, the Germans also opened on French territory some Ilags (Internierungslager) to detain enemy aliens, and in Alsace, which had been annexed by the Reich, they opened the camp of Natzweiler, which is the only concentration camp created by Nazis on French territory (annexed by the Third Reich).

"Natzweiler included a gas chamber which was used to exterminate at least 86 detainees (mostly Jewish) with the aim obtaining a collection of undamaged skeletons (as this mode of execution did no damage to the skeletons themselves) for the use of Nazi professor August Hirt."

And from this History of Alsace-Loraine:

"The area was annexed by Nazi Germany in 1940, but reverted to France in 1945 at the end of World War II and has remained a part of France since."

From same Alsace-Lorraine article: World War II:

"After France was defeated in the spring of 1940, the area was administered from Berlin by the Germans until they were defeated in 1945.
During the occupation, all inhabitants of military age were subject to conscription into the German army, and in some cases engaged in repression against French citizens during the Second World War (see for instance the massacre of Oradour-sur-Glane).

"About 130,000 young men from Alsace-Lorraine were also drafted or volunteered to serve in the German Wehrmacht or the Waffen-SS during the Second World War, mostly on the eastern front (40,000 of them were killed or missing in action).
This led to numerous problems and recriminations after the war.

The tong-term historical context here is that Alsace-Lorraine was annexed, un-annexed, re-annexed and re-un-annexed -- several times over the centuries.
The most recent annexation was by Germany in 1940, though some sources, instead of using the word "annexed," merely say it was "administered from Berlin."

Is there a practical distinction to be made between "annexed" and "administered from Berlin"?

Among the ways we can see that Nazis treated Alsace-Lorraine as their own territory include:

• unlike the rest of France, Alsace-Loraine was administered from Berlin.
• Germans draft of its young men into the German military, and
• Nazis building a concentration camp there.

Finally, you seem to be highly sensitive to this particular word "annexed," and to any legalistic distinctions regarding it.

Can you explain why?