During January 1936, the German Chancellor and Führer Adolf
Hitler resolved to reoccupy the Rhineland. In the first place Adolf
Hitler had planned to remilitarise the Rhineland in 1937, but chose in early
1936 to move remilitarisation forward by a year for several reasons, that is to
say the ratification by the French National Assembly of the Franco Soviet pact
of 1935 allowed him to present his coup both at home and abroad as a defensive
move against Franco Soviet encirclement.
In January 1936, Benito Mussolini
who was angry about the League of Nations sanctions applied against his country
for aggression against Ethiopia told the German Ambassador in Rome, Ulrich von
Hassell that he wanted to see an Austro-German agreement which would in practice
bring Austria into Germany's wake, so that she could pursue no other foreign policy
than one parallel with Germany.
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Bruno Heinemann Destroyer
Laid down 14 January 1936
Admiral
Graf Spee Commissioned 6 January 1936
Conrad
Patzig
Takes command of the Pocket Battleship
Admiral
Graf Spee on 6 January 1936 to
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October 1937 Adolf
Hitler On 30 January 1936 in a speech to the Reichstag said. Germany will
be a lover of peace such as only a peaceloving nation can be.
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