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I know Hitler violated the Versailles Treaty. I know HOW he did it. What i don't know is WHY no country held him accountable for it/ stopped him?
England? USA? France? Any of the hundreds of countries who knew what was going on!! What were their reasons for not doing anything?
'Simply put because no one would stand up to them when they started nibbling on the edges of the Treaty and breaking the provisions of it. many sided issue because of the Great Depression, and lack of potical will in England and France. The US had bowed out of the world scene and gone isolationist after the Treay of Versailles, most American political leadership thought it way to far in punishing Germany for a war it didn't start and also that te provisions were mainly based on a wish for revenge by the French for the losses of World War One and previous conflicts wit the Germans such as the Franco-Prussian War. One problem not considered when they did the militaary size/length of service restrictions was that keep the German military both small and for extended periods of time meant you would have a large nucleous of professionals to build a larger military around fairly quickly. Manufacturing of weapons and research were done with the assistance of several countries which allowed German engineers to work in German built factories with the understanding that the knowledge would be shared an design work for civilian and "speciality" aircraft; the ME-109 was a racing plane and not a fighter while the tri-motor aircraft and the Condor were a civilian transport/passenger not military transport or recon/bomber. One of the things that bothered many Germans in and out of the military was the movement and occupation of areas which were German held when the armistice was signned 11 Nov 1918 and the Treaty of Versailles; the armistice was supposed to freeze the militaries in place with no movement. The German Army was withdrawn to German territory to fight rioting and disrest in Germany and the Allied troops, primarily French, then moved into the positions the Germans left which was a violation of te armistice. The Americans did protest but the British refused to take sides and the French did as they pleased which drastically changed to territorial position for negotiation at Versailles and when they were forced to cede land to Russia, which had already signed a seperate peace treaty with Germany and Austria-Hungary prior to the arministice. Those actions did cause widspread feeling of being treated unfairly, cheated and too harshly by many Germans and again this was in and outof the military. WW1 was probably the first time that a country lost a war but held and maintained huge areas of the other sides territory and had no foreign troops with its own border when they lost. One of the reasons for the rise of Hitler, who played heavily on the unfair and illegal treatmen of Germany at the end of WW1 and the subsequent WW2 could be layed fairly at the feet of the French quest to win through peace and treaties what they had been unable to do militarily, the lack of political will of the British government and the withdrawal of the United States from world affairs.
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