>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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