ABSTRACT
The plebiscite was held on 13 January 1935. Adolf Hitler (q.v.) had been in power for two years, and the economic vitality of Germany and nation alist appeals won over the Saarlanders. Forty-six thousand voters, apparently reacting to Hitler’s suppression of independent trade unions and the political parties of the Left, voted for continued administration by the League of Nations. Two thousand voted to join France. An overwhelming 445,000 expressed their desire to return to Germany.
