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>It is perfectly clear that the Reichswehr never accepted the modest role she
>was confined by the Versailles Treaty and longed for the good moment to
>expand again. Practically every man was trained to assume a charge above his
>actual rank. It was a defensive army contre-coeur. Dont forget that most
>Germans sincerely believed to have lost WW I only  by trahison
>(Dolchstosslegende) and considered Versailles a macrospcopic injustice and
>the treaty absolutely inconsistent with vital interests of the German
>People.


On the other hand it is clear that during
the EJ service in the Reichswehr it was
a modest military organisation that
also protected the republic from
internal enemies.

Greetings

Bertil Haggman



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