# What Nazi official announced the March 1936 march into the Rhineland (video link included)?

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[Link to documentary.](https://www.c-span.org/video/?468206-1/nuremberg)  
You can see the announcement starting at about 15:19. I couldn’t find where the speaker was identified.

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Josef Grohé? He was Gauleiter of the area.

> **[Josef Grohé](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josef_Groh%C3%A9)**
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> Josef Grohé (6 November 1902  – 27 December 1987) was a German Nazi Party official. He was the long-serving Gauleiter of Gau Cologne-Aachen and Reichskommissar for Belgium and Northern France toward the end of the Second World War.
> Grohé was born the son of a farmer and shopkeeper. He tried to join the Imperial German Navy during the First World War in 1918, but was refused for being underage. He attended business school from 1919 to 1921 and worked as a clerk in the hardware industry.
> Grohé wa...

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Looking at some various pics of him at a similar age, I think so. Thanks.