A fact from 1935 Saar status referendum appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 31 May 2014 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:
Did you know... that despite Georges Clemenceau's claim that the Saar contained 150,000 Frenchmen, just 2,124 of the territory's voters supported a French annexation of the Saar in a 1935 referendum?
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Considering that all German territory bordering the Saarland was still demilitarized in 1934 and 1935 (and remained so until it was very famously remilitarized in 1936), there is no conceivable way that Germany should have "massed" troops near the border. Wulfhelm (talk) 20:03, 2 June 2017 (UTC)Reply
