Talk:Locarno Treaties

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What exactly were the French and German aims for this treaty?

Does anyone else propose that this article be organized better? The information is a bit difficult to get without digging through everything.

Germany wanted to mislead the League of Nations by telling them what they wanted to hear. The Treaty never mentioned that Germany would not invade to the East.

"Spirit of Locarno"[edit]

It's the first time I heard this as a positive description. In Polish work I read it has negative connotations, because Germany refused to guarantee western Polis borders, while France didn't care about that. Szopen (talk) 14:10, 11 February 2008 (UTC) According to Romuald Szeremetiew, Streseman said after Locarno that the Locarno Treaties "opened [to Germany] new possibilities in the East", and that in private correspondence he stressed that those treaties were weakening Poland and gave Germans chance of getting Pomorze and Silesia. Szopen (talk) 14:15, 11 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Im doing a project on the treaty of locarno, and this is not enough information. Im having so much trouble. I cant find anything on the internet either they have not enough info or they bring the locarno treaty once. I have emailed so many history professors around the world not one have answered. This treaty was huge and to see not enough info it makes other people think its not important, especially the people in Switzerland. Here are some questions that should be answered and added in the article:

How did the Treat of Locarno lead to the Kellog-Briand peace pact?

What was the league of nations that germany was admitted to?

What was the important passage in the treaty of locarno?

Did Germany and france make the treaty word for word? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.236.149.190 (talk) 22:58, 5 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I have put a dubious tag on the claim that Locarno was an act of British appeasement. As this was before the British had never heard of the NSDAP at this point, and Weimar was not demanding lebensraum, i cannot see how this could be regarded as appeasement —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stonemac (talk • contribs) 09:42, 9 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I support to have the notation of appeasement removed. It is an anachronism reading in far to much. (German-Soviet Relations and the Anglo-Soviet Break, 1927Author(s): Harvey L. DyckSource: Slavic Review, Vol. 25, No. 1 (Mar., 1966), pp. 67-83) tells more about the actual situation of careful balancing form the point of view of a military and austerzised germany and of the considoration of the "real enemy" the soviet union. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.53.43.253 (talk) 01:10, 26 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support that decision as Dyck's paper gives an accurate account based on the notes taken from the German foreign department. It is the Soviet Union that is to be protected against. Germany is harmless in the period. It is also dubious to label the notion; that German dominated territories should be allowed to be part of Germany as appeasement. The argumentation is based on the principle of popular sovereignty, being part of the basis of the peace accord in Versailles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.64.48.155 (talk) 06:10, 14 November 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Shedding some light on Streseman's reasoning at Locarno treaty[edit]

This is an excerpt from "A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century" written by Eric Dorn Brose.

In chapter 4, when discussing the Locarno Treaty, Brose describes Streseman as "wily" and as a 'foreign minister [who] refused to budge' when it cam time to make pledges about Geramny's eastern borders. 'He [Streseman} could not recognize the permanency of the German-Czechoslovakian and German-Polish borders without incurring the wrath of the nationalists who would never accept the loss of prewar territory to upstart Poland or abandon Germans living under Prague's rule^[1].'

I hope this helps a little in understanding why Streseman seemed to just appease The League of Nations.

^ Brose, Eric Dorn,A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century, (Oxford University Press, 2005),p.128, para. 4

G_Currier (talk) 20:53, 10 February 2011 (UTC)[reply]

[1] Brose, Eric Dorn,A History of Europe in the Twentieth Century, (Oxford University Press, 2005),p.128, para. 4

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