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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