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 | | Largely as a result of the efforts of the German foreign minister, Gustav Stresemann, the last occupation troops (who were French) withdrew from the Rhineland in June, 1930, five years before the terminal date set by the treaty. |
 | | The German fortifications in the Rhineland : the so-called Siegfried Line : were an extensive system of defenses in depth, which were penetrated by the Allies in World War II only after very heavy fighting. |
 | | The Rhineland was the scene of the Rhenish separatist movement, whose leaders staged uprisings in DUsseldorf, Bonn, Koblenz, Wiesbaden, and Mainz, and proclaimed a Rhineland republic at Aachen in 1923; the movement, however, collapsed in 1924. |
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