Abstract
At the root of Western European insecurity in the interwar years lay France’s fears of a rearmed and revanchiste Germany. France had been immensely weakened by the First World War. She had lost her Russian ally. France’s only comfort had been the clauses of the Treaty of Versailles which had reduced the German army to a mere 100 000 men, abolished the General Staff and forbidden Germany to have an air force.
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Alpert, M. (2004). Chapter 1. In: A New International History of the Spanish Civil War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230501010_2
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