By an overwhelming majority, the people of the Saarland have voted to rejoin Germany. The exact percentage of votes for the measure was 90.73%. This is roughly the same as the population of ethnic Germans residing in the area.Among the other options on the referendum, 8.86% voted to retain the status quo. A third option of joining France received a paltry 0.41% of the vote.
Besides the Nazi involvement with opinion leading up to the vote, the Catholic Church also supported rejoining Germany. There has also been concern with Bolshevism.
Shortly after the vote was tallied, Hitler announced that Germany "had no further territorial demands to make of France."
The French administration will be withdrawing from the region as soon as possible.
