Zusammenfassung der Ressource
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- Policy Aims
- Right the Wrongs of the Treaty of Versailles
- Unite German Speakers
- Gain Lebensraum (Living space) in the East (Poland and Russia)
- The Saar
- As agreed in the T of V, the Saar was returned to Germany after a vote
- Hitler used this as propaganda:
- 90% of people in the Saar voted to rejoin Germany
- Gave Hitler confidence to begin remilitarising the Rhineland
- Military terms of the Treaty of Versailles?
- Britain allowed Hitler to break the T of V by giving them 35% of British ships
- Under the Anglo- German Naval Agreement in 1935
- Introduced Conscription in 1935
- After leaving League Disarmament Conference in 1933
- Promised not to invade Poland for 10 years (1934)
- Other countries let him rearm
- Remilitarising the Rhineland
- 32,000 troops marched into the Rhineland
- Hitler said it was the most nerve wracking thing he'd done
- only just started to rearm
- Military advisors told him NO
- Ordered any soldiers to turn back if French resisted
- League was busy dealing w/ Abyssinia
- Rhineland was "their backyard" and the Treaty was too harsh
- France wouldn't do anything because of an election, wanted Britain to give support
- Hitler successfully broke the Treaty
- Push for Anschluss
- Mussolini impressed, signed Rome-Berlin Axis
- Proved advisors wrong
- Anschluss with Austria
- Schussing asked for help due to riots and protests
- Restore order by making Nazi Chief of Police
- Plebiscite wouldn't happen
- because Hitler moved his troops to the border
- Schussing resigned
- Nazis invited in
- 99.75% agreed to Anschluss
- Action not taken because Hitler was invited in
- Also 99,75% wanted Anschluss
- feared communism more than Nazis
- B & F sympathised with Germany
- Austria is German Speaking
- Hitler righted the wrongs of Versailles
- Gained resources from Czechoslovakia which threatened Sudetenland
- Rome- Berlin Axis meant Mussolini wouldn't stop him