One of the terms of the Treaty of Versailles was that the Germans would not be able to keep military forces in a 50km stretch of the Rhineland. Hitler resented this term as it made Germany ...

Hitler remilitarised the Rhineland, from which German troops were banned under the Treaty of Versailles Britain and France again condemned the move but did nothing to stop Hitler, as they were ...

This resistance on the part of the Social Democrats has hitherto prevented a re-division of Germany, and it has also exercised a decisive influence upon the Rhineland Movement. The Rhenish Socialists ...

France did not act. France was between governments when Germany re-occupied the Rhineland. The Hoare-Laval fiasco (where France and Britain tried to appease Italy's leader Mussolini by agreeing to ...

Hitler rearmed, he reoccupied the Rhineland and united with Austria. And in 1938 he turned his sights on Czechoslovakia. Not until 1939 when he invaded Poland did Britain say, "Stop". So why did ...

On March 7th, 1936, less than three weeks after the Winter Olympics, Hitler sent some 30,000 troops into the Rhineland, a German region that had provided a buffer between Germany and France ...