Nazi Foreign Policy, 1933-39
Author Sean Lang
July 2009
Philip Allan / Hodder Education
Distributed By Trans-Atlantic Publications
ISBN: 9781844896394
110 pages, Illustrated
$32.50 Paper original
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Table of Contents: 
The ‘Munich
myth’ The
historical bombshells of 1961 New
slant on traditional views If
only Stresemann had lived… …could
he have contained Hitler? The
Great War and after War
and policy The
German view of the British The
German view of the French The
German view of the Russians The
German collapse in 1918 The ‘stab
in the back’ The
Paris Peace Conference and the Treaty of Versailles The
impact of Woodrow Wilson Germany
and the Treaty of Versailles The
foreign policy of the Weimar Republic The
impact of Versailles Weimar
Germany and Bolshevik Russia The
Treaty of Rapallo The
foreign policy of Gustav Stresemann The
Locarno Conference Ironing
out the anomalies German
reactions to Stresemann The
final years of Weimar Nazi
foreign policy, phase one: rearmament, 1933–36 Mein
Kampf and Lebensraum Who
ran Nazi foreign policy? Agreements
with the Pope and the Poles, 1933–34 Withdrawal
from the League Financing
rearmament The
search for an ally The
purge and the putsch, 1934 The
rise of von Ribbentrop Abyssinia The
remilitarisation of the Rhineland The
Spanish Civil War The
foreign policy of the great powers France French
alliances with central and eastern Europe France’s
difficult relationship with Britain France’s ‘Maginot
mentality’ The
French crises of 1936 France
and appeasement Great
Britain The
foreign secretary Officials
and diplomats Churchill Neville
Chamberlain Defence
of the empire Defence
policy British
foreign policy The
Soviet Union Italy The
United States Nazi
foreign policy, phase two: annexations, 1936–38 The
Rhineland, the Olympics and the Four-Year Plan: 1936 Planning
for war Austria
and the Anschluss, 1938 The
Sudetenland, 1938 The
Munich crisis Nazi
foreign policy, phase two: from Kristallnacht to war, 1938–39 Kristallnacht The
annexation of Bohemia–Moravia Memel
and Poland, 1939 Poland The
Nazi-Soviet Pact The
last days of peace A
deal with London? The
confusion of Nazi foreign-policy aims Looking
at documents and pictures Documentary
analysis Picture
analysis Bibliography Glossary