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Alsace-Lorraine was occupied by Germany in 1940 during the Second World War. Although it was never formally annexed, Alsace-Lorraine was incorporated into the Greater German Reich , which had been restructured into Reichsgau .
After the 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War, Alsace was annexed by Germany and became a part of the 1871 unified German Empire as a formal "Emperor's Land". After World War I the victorious Allies detached it from Germany and the province became part of the Third French Republic .
Alsace–Lorraine was formally ceded back to France in 1920 as part of the Treaty of Versailles following Germany's defeat in the war, but already annexed in practice at the war end in 1918. Geographically, Alsace–Lorraine encompassed most of Alsace and the Moselle department of Lorraine.
Aug 14, 2023 · The region called Alsace has changed hands between France and Germany a number of times throughout the past centuries. King Louis XIV first established French sovereignty over the region after the Franco-Dutch war of 1674 and it remained French for over 200 years.
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Its role in French wartime propaganda, its geographic location, and its tumultuous recent history all combined to give the region a distinct experience of the First World War. When the war ended, Alsace-Lorraine, a part of the German Empire since 1871, was returned to France.
Jul 11, 2023 · Alsace was settled mostly by Celtic-speaking peoples until around 100 BCE when Germanic tribes began to move into the Rhine Valley. By the latter half of the first century BCE, most of the region was occupied by the Triboci, a Germanic tribe from further east in the region of Gaul.
Jun 11, 2018 · The Treaty of Frankfurt (10 May 1871) officially gave the victorious and newly unified German Empire control of Alsace and part of Lorraine, provinces that had progressively come under French rule between the mid-sixteenth and the mid-eighteenth century.
