| | RHINELAND FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22) |
 | | This lasted until the Treaty of Versailles of 1919 (formally ending World War I) specified the de-militarization of the entire area to provide a buffer between Germany on one side and France, Belgium and Luxembourg (and to a lesser extent, the Netherlands) on the other side. |
 | | The remilitarization of the Rhineland was very popular with locals, because of a resurgence of German nationalism and harboured bitterness over the French occupation of the Rhineland until 1926. |
 | | In the British and Canadian armies, the term "Rhineland" often refers only to fighting west of the river in February and March 1945, with subesquent operations on the river and to the east known as "Rhine Crossing". |
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