"The most important aim of the foreign policy 1933-36 was to overthrow the treaty of Versailles". How valid is this statement to the Nazi foreign policy in this period?

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The most important aim of the foreign policy 1933-36 was to overthrow the treaty of Versailles”. How valid is this statement to the Nazi foreign policy in this period?

The Weimar Republic was declared on 9th November 1918, although its first elections were on the 19th January of 1919 out of the defeat of the First World War and lasted until Hitler abused Article 48 of the Weimar constitution in 1933 to turn Germany into a totalitarian state.

The republic faced unpopularity right from the beginning. In June 1919, the German delegates were forced to sign the humiliating treaty of Versailles in which Germany was forced to accept full responsibility for the First World War (Article 231) and to pay ?6.6 billion in reparation because they could not afford to go back to war. Germany’s coalition government did consider restarting the war instead of accepting the terms but Germany was too weak. There was also the 'Dolchstoss theory', the stab in the back theory in which it was the Politicians that brought the Germans out of the war when they were so close to victory.

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All of these problems provided the basis for some of the other problems which the faced the new republic. Austen  

The Allies drew up the treaty based on the 'war guilt' clause, article 231, which stated that Germany was responsible for the outbreak of war. This meant the Allies could impose reparations, reduce Germany's armed forces and take resourceful territory, calling it a punishment

because they could not afford to go back to war. Germany’s coalition government did consider restarting the war instead of accepting the terms but Germany was too weak.

The treaty only ...

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