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Nazi Conspiracy & Aggression F. Assurances.
As a part of their program to weaken resistance in other
states, the Nazis followed a policy of making false
assurances, thereby
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tending to create confusion and a false sense of security.
Thus, on 21 May 1936, the same date on which Germany
renounced the armament provisions of the Versailles Treaty,
Hitler announced the intent of the German Government to
respect the territorial limitations of the Versailles and
Locarno Treaties. In his speech i the Reichstag on that date
Hitler stated:
"Therefore, the Government of the German Reich shall
absolutely respect all other articles pertaining to the
cooperation [zasammenleben] of the various nations
including territorial agreements; revisions which will
be unavoidable as time goes by it will carry out by way
of a friendly understanding only.
"The Government of the German Reich has the intention
not to sign any treaty which it believes not to be able
to fulfill.
However, it will live up to every treaty signed
voluntarily even if it was composed before this
government took over.
Therefore, it will in particular adhere to all the
allegations under the Locarno Pact as long as the other
partners of the pact also adhere to it." (2288-PS).
For convenient reference, the territorial limitations in the
Locarno and Versailles Treaties, include the following:
Article 1 of the Rhine Pact of Locarno, 16 October 1925,
provides:
The High Contracting parties, collectively and
severally, guarantee, in the manner provided in the
following Articles: the maintenance of the territorial
status quo, resulting from the frontiers between
Germany and Belgium and between Germany and France and
the inviolability of the said frontiers, as fixed by,
or in pursuance of the Treaty of Peace, signed at
Versailles, on 28 June 1919, and also the observance of
the stipulation of Articles 42 and 43 of the said
Treaty, concerning the demilitarized zone."
That has reference, of course, to the demilitarized zone of
the Rhineland.
Article 42 of the Versailles Treaty, 28 June 1919, provides:
"Germany is forbidden to maintain or construct any
fortifications either on the left bank of the Rhine or
on the right bank, to the west of the line drawn 50
kilometers to the east of the Rhine."
Article 43 provides:
"In the are defined above, the maintenance and the
assembly of armed forces, either permanently or
temporarily and military maneuvers of any kind, as well
as the upkeep of all
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permanent works for mobilization, are in the same way
forbidden."
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Volume
I Chapter IX
Preparation for Aggression
1933-1936
(Part 11 of 14)
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