Would France re-negotiate the Treaty of Versailles with a right wing Germany?

Would France re-negotiate the Treaty of Versailles with a right wing Germany?


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I was discussing a alternate history where the Kapp Putsch succeeded with a friend of mine on Facebook. We came to the conclusion that France and Britain wouldn't go to war with the new right wing German government and instead, would re-negotiate sections of the Treaty of Versailles including the Rhineland, reparations, the size of Germany's army and the Danzig corridor.

But as we were discussing this, I had serious doubts that France would even sit at the table with this right wing government, let alone re-negotiate the Treaty that they had dictated to Germany two years before. I am fairly certain that Britain would re-negotiate it. After all, in our timeline's 1935, they allowed the German Navy to be increased so that it was 35% of the tonnage of the Royal Navy, which was beyond the limits of the Treaty of Versailles (without French approval or even consultation, I might add)

Just in case anyone's curious, this new right wing government is authoritarian in nature and borrows it's federal structure from the German Empire.

So, in this timeline where the Kapp Putsch succeeds and a right wing government is established and approaches France and Britain to re-negotiate the Treaty, would France be willing to sit down for the talks or would they reject any alteration of the Treaty that would benefit Germany?
 
Given how unstable and tumultuous Germany was right after WWI, I'm interesting in knowing how exactly you think the Kapp Putsch would have worked. In OTL it was defeated by a counter uprising supported by the people. And during this period Germany was rocked by a whole slew of revolutionary actions and attempts at overthrowing the government (you-know-who most immediately comes to mind). So it was hard for the Kapp Putsch to stand out from other attempts or for its supporters to solidify control over the country which at the time was sharply divided. I imagine it would still be hard unless you have a POD that changes circumstances to be more in favor of the plotters. That said, this is an interesting idea since Nazism might never come to power and the Holocaust would probably be butterflied away.
 
The wounds of The Great War are still too fresh, and the new Putsch government hasen't had the years of peace under Versailles to re-invigorate the German economy and internal stability to the point they'd be perceived as potentially powerful enough to make the Franco-British skittish of war. Remember, when Germany diden't cover its debts the French were more than happy to march troops into the Ruhr.
 
Too soon for any renegotiations. The German state is very fragile and the French and British both know this so they have no reason to fear another long and drawn out war. Germany would have to wait until the 30s to revise their treaty obligations. Without a Nazi regime it would certainly work out a lot better for everyone, being less bellicose and more restrained in its goals.
 

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Whoever has choosen "Yes" ... wishful thinking.

You would never ever get France into a re-negotiation of the ToV at all.
And especially not with a nationalistic, conservative, pro-monarchistic goverment.
Even with 'republic' goverments it was out of question for France to negotiate the ToV later on. They never did, despite some ... positive attitudes towards this by Britain and Italy later in the interwar period.

... maybe if there would be some massive pressure from Britain AND the US in favor for Germany (ASB ? at that point of time).


However, as @Amadeus I would be really interested how you manage the Kapp-Putsch to succeed.

It was a bad to not-at-all planed ad hoc event due to the threatened dismissing of the Marine-Brigade Ehrhardt.
Its 'supporters' there were, were only very few, esp. it was NOT supported by the reichswehr aka v.Seeckt, rather the opposite, as he had also to deal with some leftish 'troubles' in other parts of the Reich.
It ended due to the general strike called by the trade-unuions for Berlin (no railways, no banks, no water, no electricity, no telephone, no trams, no newspapers, no post, no banking, they weren't even able to open the Reichsbank or any other banks vaults), that ended the Kapp-Putsch fuzz in a few days only. It's sometimes called the 100 hours-spook.
 
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