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French policies in the Balkans in the face of the reoccupation of the Rhineland (March 7, 1936) : In accordance with french diplomatic documents

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• Castellan, Georges

From the French diplomatic documents published by the Ministry ofForeign Affairs, the author successively studies the first French reactionagainst Hitler’s bold stroke of reoccupying the Rhineland and the responseof the various capitals of Central and Balkanic Europe; all were apparentlyready to support drastic action by France. The second part analyses the Britishreaction, in fact radically appeasing, so the French government, unable tochange, adopted these views. The third part displays repercussions of the“French passiveness” in the capitals of the Little Entente and Balkan Pact:it was an indisputable loss of credit and glamour for France. To conclude,reoccupying the Rhineland was a caesura in the history of the inter-war periodin Europe and heralded the future Europe of Hitler.

• History and Archaeology

• Ιστορία

Το άρθρο αποτελεί μέρος πρακτικών του ελληνογαλλικού συμποσίου που πραγματοποιήθηκε στη Θεσσαλονίκη την περίοδο 15-17 Οκτωβρίου 1987 με τίτλο «La France, la Grece et les Balkansdans les annees trente».