What is the German name for the war when the Provincial Lady lived?
Phoney War The Phoney War (French: "Drôle de guerre" ; German: "Sitzkrieg" ) was an eight-month period at the start of World War II, during which there were no major military land operations on the Western Front. It began with the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939 and the declaration of war by the United Kingdom and France against Nazi Germany on none }} , and ended with the German attack on France and the Low Countries on 10 May 1940.
Alsace-Lorraine The Imperial Territory of Alsace-Lorraine (German: "Reichsland Elsaß-Lothringen" or "Elsass-Lothringen", French: "Terre d'Empire d'Alsace-Lorraine" or "Alsace-Moselle") was a territory created by the German Empire in 1871 after it annexed most of Alsace and the Moselle department of Lorraine following its victory in the Franco-Prussian War. The Alsatian part lay in the Rhine Valley on the west bank of the Rhine River and east of the Vosges Mountains. The Lorraine section was in the upper Moselle valley to the north of the Vosges.