Germany’s voluntary withdrawal from the League of Nations
It is 19 October 1933. Germany announces with a letter by Konstantin Freiherr, the
Foreign Minister of the country, that it is withdrawing from the League of Nations. In
this letter, information is included to justify why Germany leaves the League of
Nations. They make it clear by saying “Germany will no longer sign agreements which
would only lead to a perpetual Versailles treaty and thereby ruin communities of
civilized states”. The most important reason was the refusal of the Western countries
to acquiesce in Germany's demands for military parity.
After that, Germany’s
departure from the
international organization is
followed by its undertaken in
violation of international
agreements: 1936:
renunciation of the Locarno
Pact, 1938: seizure of Austria
and March 1939: annexation
of the Czechoslovak provinces
of Bohemia and Moravia.
These actions reach the peak
of the German attack to
Poland on 1 st of September
1939 and the commencement of World War II.
And all that happens nine months after Adolf Hitler became the chancellor of
Germany…
Papadopoulos Nikos