Germany and Europe 1919-1939

by Hiden,John

• ISBN13: 9780582087224
• ISBN10: 0582087228
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1993-03-15
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This is the only short study in English to survey Germany's foreign policy from a German viewpoint across the entire inter-war period. The approach, which sets Germany in her full European context, is not narrowly diplomatic; and it gives as much attention to the Weimar years of the 1920s as it gives to the more familiar story of Germany's international relations under the Third Reich. John Hiden has now thoroughly revised his text to take account of new scholarship since the book first appeared in 1977.

Table of Contents

List of tables
Acknowledgements
Introduction	p. 1
Germany	p. 5
From War to Peace, 1918-21	p. 7
The impact of the Armistice	p. 10
The German Foreign Office under Brockdorff-Rantzau	p. 13
The Baltic campaign and the 'Russian factor'	p. 16
The terms of peace	p. 20
The Domestic Context of Policy-making, 1919-39	p. 32
Coalitions and policy-making	p. 36
Stresemann and the politics of reason	p. 42
From Bruning to Hitler	p. 48
The economics of rearmament	p. 52
Institutional conflicts	p. 57
Germany and the European Powers, 1921-1939	p. 63
Germany, Britain and France	p. 65
Reparations	p. 66
Locarno and its effects	p. 72
The radicalisation of foreign policy	p. 80
Hitler and the Western Powers	p. 84
Appeasement	p. 99
Germany and Russia	p. 108
Rapallo - its origins and its significance	p. 111
Weimar-Soviet relations under Stresemann	p. 119
Hitler's quest for Lebensraum	p. 125
The Nazi-Soviet Pact, 1939	p. 130
Germany and East Europe	p. 137
The economic dimension of Weimar Ostpolitik	p. 139
The prospects for peaceful revision	p. 145
Eastern Europe in Hitler's strategy	p. 153
The economic levers of National Socialist policy	p. 158
Munich and after	p. 162
Germany and Italy	p. 168
Balkan issues	p. 171
Mussolini and National Socialism in the 1920s	p. 174
The Austrian factor	p. 177
The emergence of the 'Axis'	p. 181
The 'Pact of Steel'	p. 187
Conclusion	p. 191
Hitler's place in German Foreign Policy?	p. 193
Bibliographical Essay	p. 201
Tables	p. 211
Map: Treaty Settlements in Europe, 1919-26	p. 214
Index	p. 216
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