WORLD HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The demilitarized zone included all of Germany west of the Rhine River and a strip fifty kilometers east of the Rhine. This zone had been established by the Treaty of Versailles as a buffer between France and Belgium on one side, and Germany on the other.

Detailed explanation-2: -After the end of World War I, the Rhineland came under Allied occupation. Under the 1919 Treaty of Versailles, the German military was forbidden from all territories west of the Rhine or within 50 km east of it. The 1925 Locarno Treaties reaffirmed the then-permanently-demilitarized status of the Rhineland.

Detailed explanation-3: -Rhineland, German Rheinland, French Rhénanie, historically controversial area of western Europe lying in western Germany along both banks of the middle Rhine River. It lies east of Germany’s border with France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

Detailed explanation-4: -According to the Treaty of Versailles, the Rhineland, a strip of land inside Germany bordering on France, Belgium and the Netherlands, was to be de-militarised. That is, no German troops were to be stationed inside that area or any fortifications built.

Detailed explanation-5: -Two weeks later the Americans physically left the Rhineland. The American occupation zone was consequently handed over to the French, who from that moment on controlled the major portion of the occupied Rhineland.