What did the European powers do when Hitler ordered the re-occupation of the Rhineland in 1936?

Despite universal agreement that the re-occupation of the Rhineland constituted a breach of the Treaties of Versailles and Locarno ( a treaty signed in 1925 by the Weimar Republic designed to normalize relations in post war Europe ), the League of Nations did not act decisively to prevent tler's move to re-occupy Germany's western frontier. Tler promised that Germany had "no territorial claims in Europe" and would offer a 25 year non aggression pact with France and Britain. When the League asked for details about the pact, they received no reply from Germany.

French troops congregated on the Franco-German border, but did not cross. After the war General Heinz Guderian commented: "If the French had then marched into the Rhineland we would have had to withdraw with our tails between our legs, for the military resources at our disposal would have been wholly inadequate for even a moderate resistance.

In simplicity, they continued their values of appeasement. It was when they took Poland that spurred the war.

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