The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (Updated Edition) by John J. Mearsheimer

Author:John J. Mearsheimer
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2001-01-15T05:00:00+00:00

NAZI GERMANY (1933–41)

Background

France was the most powerful state in Europe between the end of World War I (1918) and when Hitler became German chancellor on January 30, 1933. It maintained a formidable army and paid serious attention to defending its eastern border against a German attack (see Table 8.5). Germany presented no threat to France during this period, however, because Weimar Germany was barely capable of defending itself, much less attacking into France. Germany certainly had the requisite population and wealth to build the mightiest army in Europe, but it was hamstrung by the Versailles Treaty (1919), which took the strategically important Rhineland away from Germany and placed it under international control and also prohibited Weimar from building a powerful military machine.

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