In November 1918 it was occupied by the Italian Army. After World War I the southern parts of the former Cisleithanian crown land of Tyrol (i.e. Trentino and South Tyrol) were awarded to the Kingdom of Italy under the terms of the London Pact and the 1919 Treaty of Saint-Germain, making the Lienz district of East Tyrol an exclave with no territorial connection to the mainland of North Tyrol. After the 1938 "Anschluss" of the Federal State of Austria into Nazi Germany, the Lienz district became a part of the ""Reichsgau"" of Carinthia.