Did Hitler want to return France to its pre-Westphalia borders?

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Did Hitler want to return France to its pre-Westphalia borders?

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Post by Futurist » 29 Dec 2015, 09:38

After the Fall of France, did Hitler want to return France to its pre-Westphalia borders? After all, this is what appears to be stated here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zone_interdite

However, I simply want to make sure that the sources for this Wikipedia article are both accurate and used correctly.

Indeed, any thoughts on this?

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Post by Futurist » 01 Jan 2016, 03:59

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Post by Futurist » 17 Jan 2016, 03:41

Also, for reference:

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Re: Did Hitler want to return France to its pre-Westphalia borders?

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Post by Sheldrake » 17 Jan 2016, 11:26

No. Otherwise he would have redrawn the border to incorporate annexed all of pre-1648 Lotheringen/ Lorraine. Nor did he care about the bits of France taken from Spain or Flanders.

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Re: Did Hitler want to return France to its pre-Westphalia borders?

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Post by Loïc » 17 Jan 2016, 18:28

You forget the german settlers sent for the "Ostland" in the Ardennes and French people expelled or not allowed to return there, a planned "Burgundia" for the SS or something like that, where the germans imagined to find Burgundians nationalists like they imagined to find a such support in Britanny, other region they wished to separate from France

the first map forgets also
the Nord Pas-de-Calais rattached to the German Military Command in Belgium and Northern France as shown on wikipédia
so with the reserved zone Ardennes Lorraine to Franche Comté
and the Alsace-Moselle annexed

a such new internal frontier, rattached-reserved-annexed zones, materializes not only the pangermanist claims against France as expressed since the XIXth century and 1914-1918 where France was supposed to cede these territories from Somme to Belfort, last place of Alsace, but it is also worst including a large part of Franche-Comté, and I am not speaking about Himmler's delirious project for his SS Burgundy including not only Franche-Comté but also parts of Bourgogne or other dubious Brittany protectorate, all to permanently weaken France and reduce the country as a "great Switzerland"

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