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Saar as Pivot in European Power Politics
A detailed analysis of the Saar region as a strategic, politically volatile border area linking Luxembourg, France, and West Germany. The piece traces the Saar’s history of control by Germany, France, or international bodies, its economic heft, and the current leverage this territory provides France in shaping European security arrangements and the fate of the European Army Treaty. It recalls Patton’s warning about Saar in war, Hitler’s 1935 plebiscite victory, and Franco German negotiations aiming at a European territory solution through the Council of Europe proposal.
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Luxembourg
France
West Germany
Saar
Europe
NATO
Bonn
Hitler
Nazifuehrer
League of Nations
Die Heimat
Germany
Rauucaton
Bidault
Adenauer
Council of Europe
Strasbourg
Berchtesgaden
Rhineland
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Alsace
Lorraine