... was in direct defiance of the Treaty of Versailles which stated that the 'Rhineland' (an area of land which was decreed to be the whole left bank of the River Rhine and a 50km wide strip on the right bank) would have no military stationed in it. Hitler defied this directive on the 7th March 1936 when he ordered his troops into ... ...

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