Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality Quotes November 2012 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 20 November 2012 12:58:06AM 0 points [-]

The Third Reich considered northern France a part of itself.

Comment author: Nornagest 20 November 2012 01:11:50AM *  1 point [-]

That depends where you draw the line. The Third Reich considered Vichy France a client state, dependent on but legally separate from itself. The north and west of France, including Normandy, fell under German military occupation after 1940 (as did the rest of the country after 1942), but that ostensibly represented wartime defense needs rather than a permanent territorial claim.

Germany did administer some French lands as part of itself during the war, all in France's northeast along the German border. There's some indication that territorial expansion would have proceeded further had the Nazis won, but most of the Third Reich's annexations took place east of Germany's prewar territory.