Episode 201 - Road to Nowhere

Military conquest was always an ambition of Hitler and the Nazis, a central thesis of theirs was that war was necessary to strengthen their nation. But while the military was built-up almost from scratch, victories were sought on the diplomatic front. Which is the new facet of German aggression being moved onto. Today specifically be about the Geneva Disarmament Conference, the colossal waste of time it wound up being, and how it set the tone for Nazi diplomacy in the future. 

 

Bibliography for this episode: 

1. Bennett, Edward W. German Rearmament and the West, 1932-1933 Princeton University Press 1979
2. Nere, J. The Foreign Policy of France from 1914 to 1945 Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd 1975
3. Kitching, Carolyn J. Britain and the Geneva Disarmament Conference: A Study in International History Palgrave Macmillan 2003

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