the Holy Roman Empire. The memo, produced by the German Interior Ministry forms the basis for the northeastern line, which separated the Zone interdite of German occupied France from the rest of the areas under military control. It proposed the settlement of a million German peasants, and the French speaking population was to become re-Germanized. He considered those areas and Wallonia to be "in reality German" because of their historical German background, and should therefore be re-integrated into the German Reich. In 1942, Hitler also mentioned that the former area of the Kingdom of Burgundy, which France "had taken from Germany in her weakest moment", would also have to be annexed to Nazi Germany after the incorporation of the forbidden zone. There were also proposals for an independent Breton state as a German vassal. Hitler himself mentioned that intention on at least one occasion to his military leaders but ultimately seemed to have taken little interest in the project. See also New Order (Nazism) German occupation of France during World War II Greater Germanic Reich References Subdivisions of Nazi Germany Proposed countries France in World War II History of Burgundy Military history of Germany during World War II