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The disarmament of Germany after World War I was decided upon by Allied leadership at the Paris Peace Conference. It was viewed, at the time, as a way to prevent further conflict with Germany and as punishment for Germany's role in World War I. The reduction of Germany's significant manufacturing capacity was one of the goals. [1]
The Armistice Commission in Spa. Lieutenant General Richard Haking (British), General Alphonse Nudant (President and French representative), and General Hector Delobbe.. The Spa Conference was a meeting between the Supreme War Council and the government of the Weimar Republic in Spa, Belgium on 5–16 July 1920. [1]
Germany assumed full control in France in 1942, Italy in 1943, and Hungary in 1944. Although Japan was a powerful ally, the relationship was distant, with little co-ordination or co-operation. For example, Germany refused to share their formula for synthetic oil from coal until late in the war.
Democracy in Germany. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0-674-18909-6. Goldberg, Sheldon A. (2017). From Disarmament to Rearmament : The Reversal of US Policy Toward West Germany, 1946–1955. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press. ISBN 9780821423004. Grieder, Peter (2012). The German Democratic Republic. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
The Heinkel He 111, one of the technologically advanced aircraft that were designed and produced illegally in the 1930s as part of the clandestine German rearmament. German rearmament (Aufrüstung, German pronunciation: [ˈaʊ̯fˌʀʏstʊŋ]) was a policy and practice of rearmament carried out by Germany from 1918 to 1939 in violation of the Treaty of Versailles, which required German ...
The Four Year Plan was a series of economic measures initiated by Adolf Hitler in Nazi Germany in 1936. Hitler placed Hermann Göring in charge of these measures, making him a Reich Plenipotentiary (Reichsbevollmächtigter) whose jurisdiction cut across the responsibilities of various cabinet ministries, including those of the Minister of Economics, the Defense Minister and the Minister of ...
Demilitarisation can also refer to the policies employed by Allied forces during the occupation of Japan and Germany after World War II. [4] The Japanese and German militaries were re-badged to disassociate them from their recent war history, but were kept active and reinforced to help the allies face the new Soviet threat, which had become ...
A matchbook cover issued by the Non-Sectarian Anti-Nazi League to advertise the boycott. The anti-Nazi boycott was an international boycott of German products in response to violence and harassment by members of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party against Jews following his appointment as Chancellor of Germany on January 30, 1933.