Gau Westmark
The Gau Westmark (English: Western March) was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945. From 1925 to 1933, it was a regional subdivision of the Nazi Party. History The Nazi (plural ) system was established at a party conference on 22 May 1926 to improve administration of the party structure. From 1933 onwards, after the Nazi seizure of power, the increasingly replaced the states as administrative subdivisions in Germany. The had its origin in 1925 in (English: 'Rhenish Palatinate'), comprising the Bavarian/Rhenish Palatinate – the exclave of Bavaria left (west) of the river Rhine, which is now part of the modern state of Rhineland-Palatinate (see also: Palatinate region). The territory of Oldenburg Birkenfeld was also annexed to the Gau in 1934. With the return of the Saar Basin to Germany on 1 March 1935, the two regions were merged and formed the new . This was renamed (English: 'Saar-Palatinate') on 13 January 1936. After the outbreak of the Second World War and the defeat of France in 1940, the French of Moselle, renamed "", was added to the on 30 November 1940. On 7 December 1940, it was again renamed (English: 'Western March'). Bürckel hoped that would