What if Germany had rejected the entire Versailles Treaty in 1922, due to the economic recession and the French occupation of the Rhineland?
Germany certainly frustrated the French during their occupation of the Saar and Rheinland in 1922, to overheat the economy with a Hyperinflation, forcing the French to withdraw from the German lands a year later, as there was nothing to take anymore in terms of cash. What would have happened, if the German government in Weimar also had considered the French occupation a breach in the Versailles Treaty and therefore was legitemate to cancel the dictate entirely?
The USA already supplied cash for German Recovery, as it wanted the get the Germans wealthy enough to buy their export goods and therefore create a market for US products.
The UK too had no serious remorse against the Germans and considered the nation's punishment in the Versailles Treaty a bit too harsh. It certainly was not prepared to support the French, who were at this point considered more likely to be an enemy, than a demiliterized Germany.
The USSR was itself still too much in internal turmoil to bother about foreign politics, as was Italy, where Mussolini was on his march to Rome.
Who would act and how?
Germany certainly frustrated the French during their occupation of the Saar and Rheinland in 1922, to overheat the economy with a Hyperinflation, forcing the French to withdraw from the German lands a year later, as there was nothing to take anymore in terms of cash. What would have happened, if the German government in Weimar also had considered the French occupation a breach in the Versailles Treaty and therefore was legitemate to cancel the dictate entirely?
The USA already supplied cash for German Recovery, as it wanted the get the Germans wealthy enough to buy their export goods and therefore create a market for US products.
The UK too had no serious remorse against the Germans and considered the nation's punishment in the Versailles Treaty a bit too harsh. It certainly was not prepared to support the French, who were at this point considered more likely to be an enemy, than a demiliterized Germany.
The USSR was itself still too much in internal turmoil to bother about foreign politics, as was Italy, where Mussolini was on his march to Rome.
Who would act and how?