Effects on Germany/France if Allies oppose the Re-militarization?

So as is well known Hitler gave explicit orders for German troops to pull out of the Rhine if France opposed it. In OTL France didn't do much to stop it. Lets say they do, they issue a strong condemnation and move troops to the border or something, prompting the operation to be abandoned. How does it affect Germany? It would be a blow to Hitler's legitimacy if his first attempt to spit in the Allies failed. Could it inspire anti-Nazi elements in Germany? Or would it be more like a speed bump than a wall on Nazi plans?

How would it affect France? France was pretty defensively minded after WWI and for good reason imo. Would the French people support such a bold and potentially aggressive action like opposing the re-militarization? Or could it be a good thing for France? France was pretty stuck in a rut after WWI right so could being aggressive and coming out on top because of it spur the French back into a more proactive foreign policy?
 
So as is well known Hitler gave explicit orders for German troops to pull out of the Rhine if France opposed it. In OTL France didn't do much to stop it. Lets say they do, they issue a strong condemnation and move troops to the border or something, prompting the operation to be abandoned. How does it affect Germany? It would be a blow to Hitler's legitimacy if his first attempt to spit in the Allies failed. Could it inspire anti-Nazi elements in Germany? Or would it be more like a speed bump than a wall on Nazi plans?

How would it affect France? France was pretty defensively minded after WWI and for good reason imo. Would the French people support such a bold and potentially aggressive action like opposing the re-militarization? Or could it be a good thing for France? France was pretty stuck in a rut after WWI right so could being aggressive and coming out on top because of it spur the French back into a more proactive foreign policy?

France had a aggressive enforcement policy to 1924, when its former Entente partners failed to support France. The Coolidge administration in the US was particularly hypocritical, willing to send US Marines and Army Regiments to China, but actually encouraging the Germans to resist the Ruhr occupation 1923-24. It was this failure of France former partners, leaving France politically isolated vis German policy. This lack of international support led to the Frances defense policy in the 1930s.
 

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France had a aggressive enforcement policy to 1924, when its former Entente partners failed to support France. The Coolidge administration in the US was particularly hypocritical, willing to send US Marines and Army Regiments to China, but actually encouraging the Germans to resist the Ruhr occupation 1923-24. It was this failure of France former partners, leaving France politically isolated vis German policy. This lack of international support led to the Frances defense policy in the 1930s.
Because of the impact it had on the recovery of the European and with it global economy. France didn't care because they were getting paid anyway through enforcement, so it didn't hurt them, but the UK suffered and through that the US ability to profit from trade and get their unsecured 1917-19 loans paid back, while of course Germany too was viewed as a trade partner worth getting back on it's feet. Plus the US never supported the ToV, so had active interest in opposing enforcement.

There was little hypocritical about it, they had specific interests with Germany that were better served by France not wrecking their economy. France too was only looking out for itself, which is why it was willing to spit in the eye of it's allies to enforce the ToV regardless of the impact on the regional economy due to Germany's inability to pay. French defense policy of the 1930s was very myopic and paid little attention to the wider impact it would have, such as bankrupting the Creditanstalt in Vienna and worsening the Great Depression:
https://www.jstor.org/stable/3133667?seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents

The resulting economic impact forced France into a defensive posture, because they were broke and there were few threats on the horizon due to the global economic crisis causing military cuts everywhere.

Would the French people support such a bold and potentially aggressive action like opposing the re-militarization? Or could it be a good thing for France? France was pretty stuck in a rut after WWI right so could being aggressive and coming out on top because of it spur the French back into a more proactive foreign policy?
Springing off what I wrote above, France couldn't because of the budget crisis they were in as a result of their flawed economic policy and the Great Depression causing insolvency. In fact German intelligence had picked up on that, which is the major reason Hitler even risked remilitarization; it was known that the French couldn't even afford to mobilize due to the budget/banking crisis, which got France, in part (the other was an agreement with the US and Britain), to abandon the gold standard thereafter and start liquidating their gold stocks to finance rearmament:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remilitarization_of_the_Rhineland#Neurath_and_secret_intelligence
 
If France acts then Germany pulls back and is denied those resources. This gamble may encourage different parts in Germany to seize power such as the military, which will give a completely different historical outcome.

If Hitler stays in power then his plans are delayed and the timeline is changed because now he and Germany have less resources and they are also shown that they can not act with impunity.
 
France said occupation of the Rhineland would be an act of war. Then when it happened they said it was an act of war and nothing happened.

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National credibility can be easily blown if you lay down a line in the sand and don’t mean it.

If they meant it Hitler would have been a nobody afforded a few sentences of 20th century European history books.
 
If France blocks German militarisation and Germany is limited to what the treaty of Versailles. So France moves on the Rhineland.
If the French act against other breaches of the treaty of Versailles, then Germany has no air force no subs no tanks etc.
I wonder what happens when Stalin rebuilds the red army.
Once Stalin gets past Poland they will not be much to stop him until he reaches the Rhine.
On the plus side, that should stop the Holocaust.
This could mean a ww2 between the Soviets the British and French and later the Americans.
 
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