Closed Area

During the Second world war, two types of territories are called closed area :

vast extended from territory to the north and the east of the occupied France (coarsely, north of the departments of the Somme, Aisne, the Ardennes, Lorraine (in-outside the Moselle attached to the Gau Westmark), Franche-Comté except the south of the the Jura, half is Haute-Marne, and some communes of the Marne and Coast-with Or, as well as the Northern and the Pas-de-Calais); these areas are cut remainder of France, the people having fled the advance Nazi are seen prohibiting to return in their hearths, the majority of these territories become “reserved Zones” (in particular areas of the East) were intended to become zones of German settlement thereafter (Hitler wishing the constitution of a “Country Thiois” germanized playing the part of zone-plug in the west of the Germany). The departments of the Northern and the Pas-de-Calais moreover are attached to the military command of Brussels;

a strip of land of a few kilometers broad along the coasts, prohibited with the civilians of the interior of the grounds, and established in order to facilitate its defense, because intended for the future constitution of the Atlantic Wall.

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