The British Perception of the Remilitarization of the.
Rhineland, area of western Germany along both banks of the middle Rhine River. It lies east of Germany’s border with France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands. It was the scene of recurrent crises during the first half of the 20th century and was an early test of Allied resolve against Hitler’s aggression.
The offer to discuss remilitarizing the Rhineland in exchange for an “air pact” placed the British in a weak moral position to oppose a unilateral remilitarization, since the very offer to consider remilitarization implied that remilitarization was not considered a vital security threat, but something to be traded, which thus led the British to oppose the way that the act of.
France and the Remilitarization of the Rhineland, 1936 Stephen A. Schuker Hitler's remilitarization of the Rhineland on 7 March 1936 figures in conventional historiography as one of the turning points in interwar diplomacy. At a stroke the Nazi leader rid his country of the last remaining symbol of inequality visited upon Germany by the Ver-sailles treaty and transformed the strategic balance.
Remilitarization of the Rhineland was forbidden by the Treaty of Versailles. So was starting a new German Air Force. The original German Air Force was completely dismantled after WWI and Germany.
The German Occupation of the Rhineland What should Britain do about it? This resource was produced using documents from the collections of The National Archives. It can be freely modified and reproduced for use in the classroom only.
The occupation of the Rhineland caused an escalation of tensions between Germany and other European states since this act was a direct violation of the Treaty of Versailles. It threatened global collective security because Germany was rebuilding its army again and more armaments. Nations feared that war would soon break out and so they began to try and appease Hitler. This act also stirred up.
Hitler decided to break another aspect of the Treaty of Versailles by sending German troops into the Rhineland. The German generals were very much against the plan. Hitler ignored their advice and on 1st March, 1936, three German battalions marched into the Rhineland.