The defeatism of those statesmen permitted Hitler's Germany to rearm, increase her territory and population ... the reoccupation and fortification of the Rhineland, the annexation of Austria and the ...

Adolf Hitler sent troops into the demilitarized Rhineland zone today and thereby tore to shreds the last repressive clauses of the Versailles Treaty. Coincidentally he announced that the Locarno ...

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 ...

Repudiating the conditions of the Versailles treaty that ended World War I, Hitler sought to expand the German empire. Beginning with the remilitarization of the Rhineland in 1936, Hitler made ...

Its jobless rat slashed by public works programs and massive, rapid rearmament ... weeks after the Winter Olympics, Hitler sent some 30,000 troops into the Rhineland, a German region that had ...

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 ...

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 ...

The chief aim of the speech was to promote rearmament, without regard for international restrictions. Hitler wanted Germany to leave the League of Nations, which opposed rearmament; in November ...