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The Dutch-German Treaty Regime for Border Lands

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 May 2009

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In 1951 when the Dutch Parliament discussed the Bills concerning Allocation of Enemy Property and Amendment to the provisions of the Decree on Enemy Property, few members stood up for the German farmers who held land in the Netherlands along the border. This matter would have meant little to most Dutchmen. Yet, considering the delicate nature of border disputes, it was important for the Netherlands. Below I shall discuss on the subject of border lands, more specifically those along the eastern border.

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Copyright © T.M.C. Asser Press 1977

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1. See Art. 1 Treaty of Meppen of 1824, Lagemans, , Receuil des Traites et Conventions conclues par le Royaume des Pays Bas avec des Puissances EtrangèresGoogle Scholar, no. 104 and Art. 18 of the Treaty of Cleves of 1816, Lagemans, op.cit., no. 53.

2. See Bannier, , De Landgrenzen van Nederland (Leiden: Kooyer, 1900), pp. 24 ff.Google Scholar

3. Properly speaking this had taken place already in the 8 Articles of London (20 June 1814), but in Vienna the union received its definitive form in nine Articles of the Final Act of Vienna.

4. Ratified on 15 July and 7 August 1816, Lagemans, op.cit., no. 45.

5. Ratified on 18 January and 3 December 1816, Lagemans, op.cit., no. 53.

6. The point where Prussian, Hanoverian, and Netherlands territories touched one another, just to the south of Enschede.

7. Ratified on 18 August and 24 September 1824, Lagemans, op.cit., no. 104.

8. The two treaties concluded with Prussia were drawn up exclusively in the French language, that of the Netherlands with Hanover in Dutch and German, no provision being included as to which text prevails.

9. Of 2 September 1819, record office Foreign Ministry Z.A.II, 18.

10. Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts, Strafsachen, P. 158, Band 66, pp. 165 ff.Google Scholar

11. Of 5 June 1901, Royal Decree of 24 Februari 1902, Stb. 36, Lagemans, op.cit, no. 918.

12. By this “definition” therefore, on the authority of the Supreme Court, the Finance Ministry accepted extensions of the treaty acreage.

13. Along the whole of the frontier barbed-wire entanglements had been provided. Here and there passages had been made, of which they could make use, along with local workers and the like, under German supervision within the context of their farming.

13a. Oppenheim, L., International Law, Vol. I, 6th ed. by Lauterpacht, H. (London: Longmans, 1947), p. 99.Google Scholar

14. François, , Handboek van net Volkenrecht (Zwolle: Tjeenk Willink, 1949) Vol. I, pp. 687 ff.Google Scholar, who cites Fauchille, (Traité de droit international public II, p. 55)Google Scholar. See further Erades, , De invloed van oorlog op de geldigheid van verdragen, Leiden 1938 (thesis) (Amsterdam: H.J. Paris, 1938).Google Scholar

15. Reichsgericht, , 24 05 1910Google Scholar, Entscheidungen des Reichsgerichts, Strafsachen, Band 43, p. 420.

16. Par. 69 Zollgesetz of 20 March 1939, R.G.B1. 1939 I, p. 531.

17. Export duties have long ceased to exist: the last export duty, that on rags, was abolished by the law of 6 April 1877, Stb. 71.