The Saar Offensive was the French invasion of Saarland, Germany, in the first stages of World War II, from September 7 to October 16, 1939, in response...

inadequate to stop the German offensive. The quiet of the Phoney War was punctuated by a few Allied actions. In the Saar Offensive in September, the French...

invasion of Poland. In early September 1939, France began the limited Saar Offensive but by mid-October had withdrawn to their start lines. German armies...

officer school of the Wehrmacht. However, his regiment was stationed in the Saar-Palatinate on the border with France, preparing for war. There, on September...

Poland was very limited. France invaded a small part of Germany in the Saar Offensive, and the Polish army was effectively defeated even before the British...

the period of September 1939 to May 1940; a small-scale French offensive (Saar Offensive) was answered by the Germans with a disciplined withdrawal into...

provided only token help to Poland during the war in the form of the Saar Offensive, which has often been considered an example of Western betrayal. However...

S-mine during minor probes into the German Saar region on September 7–11, 1939, during the Saar Offensive. The S-mine contributed to the withdrawal of...

during the entire invasion, and the German–French border, excepting the Saar Offensive, remained mostly calm. This period of the war is commonly known as the...

A French soldier outside of a Reichskolonialbund office in Lauterbach during the 1939 Saar Offensive...

the Saar Basin, which was occupied and governed by France under a League of Nations mandate. Saarland was returned to Nazi Germany in the 1935 Saar status...

Battles/wars First World War Battle of Verdun Battle of Champagne Second World War Saar Offensive Battle of France Awards Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross...

14 November 1973 (1973-11-14) French politics, the Maginot Line, the Saar Offensive, Blitzkrieg warfare and the Nazi invasion of France and the Low Countries...

on 12 September 1939, he attacked at Bitche, simultaneously with the Saar Offensive.: 118  In late February 1940, Paul Reynaud told de Gaulle that he had...

alliance. The French forces launched a small offensive, the Saar Offensive against Germany in the Saar region but halted their advance and returned....

during World War II. The Saar Offensive, a failed invasion of the Saarland by France during the Phoney War The Siegfried Line Offensive Operation Clipper Battle...

provided only token help to Poland during the war in the form of the Saar Offensive, which has often been considered an example of Western betrayal. However...

making it the principal German combatant during the short-lived French Saar Offensive. During the Western campaign it belonged to the Army Group C and initially...

Rydz-Śmigły moved the Polish Army headquarters from Warsaw to Brest-Litovsk. Saar Offensive: The French Army began a ground operation in the Saarland against light...

apart from a few French divisions crossing the German border in the Saar Offensive, who advanced a mere 8 km (5.0 mi). They stopped even before reaching...

On 12 September 1939 he attacked at Bitche, simultaneously with the Saar Offensive.: 118  At the start of October 1939, Reynaud asked for a staff posting...

scene of a skirmish between the French and German armies during the Saar Offensive of 1939. A natural reserve for orchids is located along the limestone...

Offensive Mogilev Offensive Bobruysk Offensive: June 1944 Minsk Offensive Polotsk Offensive Šiauliai Offensive Vilnius Offensive Belostock Offensive:...

tubes within a couple of hours. It was the first time since the 1939 Saar Offensive that Allied troops stepped into pre-1938 German territory. The 30th...

time being. 12 September General Gamelin orders to halt to the French Saar Offensive into Germany after having taken only a handful of villages. Ribbentrop...

year. As Poland was attacked in 1939, France launched its unsuccessful Saar Offensive in western Germany. One can only assume France's attack would have been...

undertaking a ground offensive within two weeks of the outbreak of war. The French initiated full mobilisation and began the limited Saar Offensive on 7 September...

apart from a few French divisions crossing the German border in the Saar Offensive, who advanced a mere 8 km (5.0 mi). They stopped even before reaching...

Pologne Terrassée in: Revue Historique de l’Armée, IX nr 1 (1953), Paris 1953, p. 132–136. Western Betrayal for more info on the Saar Offensive. v t e...

materiel. The 2nd DINA had battlefield experience from the small-scale Saar Offensive the preceding September, while the 1st DIM had yet to receive its "baptism...