Gau Westmark
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regional subdivision of the Nazi Party (1925) and administrative division of Nazi Germany (1933) ; renamed Gau Pfalz-Saar (1935) and Gau Westmark (1940)
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Gau Pfalz
- Country
- German Reich
- Located in
- Nazi Germany
- Capital
- Saarbrücken
- Official language
- German
- Currency
- Reichsmark
- Population
- 2600000
- Area
- 13579
- Head of state
- Willi Stöhr
- Form of government
- semi-presidential system
- Followed by
- French occupation zone in Germany
- Follows
- Moselle
- Coat of arms
- Reichsadler of the Nazi Germany
- Significant event
- Battle of Metz
- Political ideology
- Nazism
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- inception
- 1925-02-00
- native label
- Gau Pfalz
- short name
- Westmark
- located in the present-day administrative territorial entity
- Moselle
- located in/on physical feature
- Lorraine
- office held by head of state
- Reichsstatthalter
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1945-05-08
- facet of
- history of Germany
- topic's main Wikimedia portal
- Portal:Nazi Germany
- Commons category
- Nazi Germany
- topic's main category
- Category:Nazi Germany
- replaces
- Bavaria
- replaced by
- Rhineland-Palatinate
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