Show how by 1938 Hitler had kept his promise to rid Germany of the 'shackles of Versailles.'
Title: Show how by 1938 Hitler had kept his promise to rid Germany of the 'shackles of Versailles.'
Category: /History/War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 799 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Show how by 1938 Hitler had kept his promise to rid Germany of the 'shackles of Versailles.'
Category: /History/War & Conflicts
Details: Words: 799 | Pages: 3 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hitler promised the German people that through various means Germany would be restored to her former greatness. Germany's foreign policy was directed at delivering her from the 'shackles of Versailles.'
After Germany was defeated in World War 1, she remained with an enormous debt and together with the land and mineral losses, plunged her into a state of permanent poverty. In addition Germany was blamed as being the sole cause of the war, which resulted
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be allowed to operate in Austria. Schusnigg, the newly appointed chancellor, was bullied into making far reaching concessions to the Austrian Nazis. Hitler had got away with it again Europe could and would do nothing. This was Hitler's last territorial demand.
Thus, Hitler enjoyed a spectacular run of success, disposing one by one of the obstacles to German expansion. The Treaty of Versailles was swept aside, the Rhineland re-militarised and Austria absorbed without armed conflict.