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On 7 March 1936 Hitler announced before the Reichstag that the Rhineland had been remilitarised, and to blunt the danger of war, Hitler offered to return to the League of Nations, to sign an air pact to outlaw bombing as a way of war, and a non-aggression pact with France if the other powers agreed to accept the remilitarisation. [71]
At the peace negotiations that began in Versailles in January 1919, French prime minister Georges Clemenceau sought to fix France's border with Germany at the Rhine. [8] All the territories on the west bank of the river were to be detached from Germany and form one or more sovereign states aligned with France.
Upon Hitler's taking power in January 1933, Germany began a program of industrialization and rearmament. It re-occupied the Rhineland and sought to dominate neighboring countries with significant German populations. [2] In 1933–1935 Hitler focused his attention on domestic policies and the control of the Nazi movement.
In 1921–22, Hitler said that German Lebensraum might be achieved with a smaller USSR, created by sponsoring anti-communist Russians in deposing the Communist government of the Bolsheviks; however, by the end of 1922, Hitler changed his opinion when there arose the possibility of an Anglo–German geopolitical alliance to destroy the USSR. [101]
Hitler, Göring, Goebbels and Rudolf Hess during a military parade in 1933. Hitler ruled Germany autocratically by asserting the Führerprinzip ("leader principle"), which called for absolute obedience by all subordinates. He viewed the government structure as a pyramid, with himself—the infallible leader—at the apex.
The Greater Germanic Reich (German: Großgermanisches Reich), fully styled the Greater Germanic Reich of the German Nation (German: Großgermanisches Reich der Deutschen Nation), [4] was the official state name of the political entity that Nazi Germany tried to establish in Europe during World War II. [5]
The Propaganda War in the Rhineland: Weimar Germany, Race and Occupation after World War I (2013) excerpt and text search; Diefendorf, Jeffry M. Businessmen and Politics in the Rhineland, 1789–1834 (1980) Emmerson, J.T. Rhineland Crisis, 7 March 1936 (1977) Ford, Ken; Brian, Tony (2000). The Rhineland 1945: The Last Killing Ground in the West ...
Hitler's initial belief he would not live to see the establishment of a Greater Germanic Reich [citation needed] informed a moderate approach towards his potential enemies: Concessions were extended towards the Jews in the Haavara Agreement, to the Holy See in the Reichskonkordat, to the Poles in the Polish-German Declaration of Non-Aggression ...