Why was Alsace Lorraine important to Germany?
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Germany annexed Alsace and a part of Lorraine in 1871 partly for strategic reasons, partly in order to cement, in true Prussian fashion, her own unity on what she believed to be the ruins of France : she holds Alsace for its agricultural wealth, for its growing industries, for its potash mines, and for other reasons in
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Initially Germany mainly wanted Alsace-Lorraine to act as a buffer zone in the event of any future wars with France. The area contains the Vosges Mountains, which would be much more defensible than the Rhine River if the French ever attempted to invade
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