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The thirteen articles of the Rhineland Agreement included the following points: [1] The occupation of the west bank of the Rhine under the stipulations of the Armistice of 1918 [14] was to continue. No German troops were permitted in the zone; that is, it was to be demilitarised.
The American historian Gerhard Weinberg called the demilitarised status of the Rhineland the "single most important guarantee of peace in Europe" by preventing Germany from attacking its western neighbours and, since the demilitarised zone rendered Germany defenseless in the West, by making it impossible to attack its eastern neighbours by ...
Occupation of the Rhineland (1 C, 9 P) S. Sinai Peninsula (9 C, 39 P) Pages in category "Demilitarized zones" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 ...
The mission of UNCMAC is to supervise the Military Armistice Agreement between the two Koreas along the 151 mile Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). A demilitarized zone (DMZ or DZ) [1] is an area in which treaties or agreements between states, military powers or contending groups forbid military installations, activities, or personnel. A DZ often lies ...
After the end of the First World War in November 1918, the left bank of the Rhine and 50 km wide strip on the right bank were declared a "demilitarized zone". At first the Americans administered this territory, after 1923 the French. In the Rhineland, the change from a monarchy to a republic went almost unnoticed.
The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West. Oxford: Osprey. ISBN 1-85532-999-9. Rowe, Michael (31 July 2003). From Reich to State: The Rhineland in the Revolutionary Age, 1780-1830. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521824439. Sperber, Jonathan (1989). "Echoes of the French Revolution in the Rhineland, 1830-1849". Central ...
They also pledged to observe the demilitarized zone of the Rhineland as defined in Articles 42 and 43 of the Treaty of Versailles. Germany and Belgium, and also Germany and France, mutually promised that they would in no case resort to war against each other. Three exceptions were allowed, including breach of the terms of the demilitarized ...
At the end of World War I, the Rhineland was subject to the Treaty of Versailles. This decreed that it would be occupied by the allies, until 1935 and after that, it would be a demilitarized zone, with the German army forbidden to enter. The Treaty of Versailles and this particular provision, in general, caused much resentment in Germany.