Example sentences for: rhineland

How can you use “rhineland” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Before ascending to the papacy in 1939, Eugenio Pacelli neutered German Catholic opposition to Nazism, campaigned to remove black troops from the Rhineland, and contemptuously declined to help persecuted Jews.

  • In a region inhabited by the Slavonic Sorbs, the population of the city was overwhelmingly German by the 13th century, comprising enterprising merchants hailing from the northern Rhineland, Westphalia, and Lower Saxony, with latecomers from Thuringia and the Harz.

  • France seemed less aware of the threat from Nazi Germany, allowing Hitler to remilitarize the Rhineland in 1936 in breach of the Versailles Treaty, a step Hitler later said he had never dreamt of getting away with.

  • The devastating military expedition he launched across the Rhineland and Palatinate, and the series of largely fruitless wars with Spain, Holland, England, and Sweden did not endear him to the European people.

  • Had the Allies acquiesced in Hitler's invasion there (following, mind you, Germany's unchallenged invasions of the Rhineland, Austria, and Czechoslovakia), then Hitler would have spared the West and attacked Stalin's Russia, leading the two regimes to fight to the death.


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