What the records say
- When
- 28 May 1940
- Kind
- Territorial change
- Coordinates
- 50.42° N, 6.16° E
- Government
- Germany
- Former government
- Belgium
- History
- After the Belgian surrender, Eupen-Malmédy was reicorporated into Germany. These frontier cantons had been given to Belgium from Germany after WWI.
- Source map
- France · 10/8/1942 · 1:1,000,000 · Velhagen and Klafings
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Eupen-Malmedy
Former German region in eastern Belgium
Eupen-Malmedy is a small, predominantly German-speaking region in eastern Belgium. It consists of three administrative cantons around the towns of Eupen, Malmedy, and Sankt Vith which encompass some 730 square kilometres (280 sq mi). Elsewhere in Belgium, the region is commonly referred to as the East Cantons.
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The source
- European Borders, World War II (1938–1945)Stanford Spatial History Lab (M. De Groot)Stanford Spatial History Lab: scholarly reuse, no commercial use
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