The Treaties of Locarno: Final Building Block of Germany’s Re-Internationalisation
| dc.contributor.author | Lüdke, Tilman | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-01-08T08:05:08Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-01-08T08:05:08Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2025 | |
| dc.description.abstract-translated | The defeat in World War I had a de-nationalising effect on Germany: it was stripped of its colonial possessions and was forbidden to become active in territories Germany had been quite intensively involved in before the war. There was a rupture in relations with the Ottoman Empire and its successor territories; under British pressure, Iran blacklisted a large number of German individuals from entering the country. Germans were prohibited from visiting the Middle East under British and French mandate rule altogether. However, attempts to re-enter the international scene dated almost to the beginning of the Weimar Republic, and certainly pre-dated the rapprochement with the western powers. While the activities of “Easterners”, exemplified by the Rapallo Treaty with the Soviet Union, are comparably well studied, the relations with Middle Eastern countries in the years leading up to the Locarno Treaty still remain underexplored. These include the abolition of the Iranian “Black List” in 1922, and the re-establishment of diplomatic relations with the Turkish Republic in 1924. The signature of the Locarno treaties and Germany’s subsequent entry into the League of Nations in the autumn of 1926 re-opened the way of German diplomatic, commercial and cultural activities in the Middle East. The fact that German policy towards the Soviet Union and to the “East” was hardly affected by the signature of the Locarno Treaties allows the argument that these Treaties – frequently hailed as a predecessor to the treaties establishing the European Communities in the 1950s and 1960s – did not mark a German turn “to the West.” They rather provided Germany with added security and a framework the Nazi Regime could build on in its commercial and diplomatic expansion to South-Eastern Europe and the Middle East in the years after 1933. | en |
| dc.format | 22 s. | cs |
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| dc.identifier.issn | 1804-5480 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11025/64395 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | Západočeská univerzita v Plzni | cs |
| dc.rights | © Západočeská univerzita v Plzni | cs |
| dc.rights.access | openAccess | en |
| dc.subject | Německo (Výmarská republika) | cs |
| dc.subject | zahraniční vztahy | cs |
| dc.subject | Turecko | cs |
| dc.subject | Írán | cs |
| dc.subject | Sovětský svaz | cs |
| dc.subject.translated | Germany (Weimar Republic) | en |
| dc.subject.translated | Turkey | en |
| dc.subject.translated | Iran | en |
| dc.subject.translated | Soviet Union | en |
| dc.subject.translated | foreign relations | en |
| dc.title | The Treaties of Locarno: Final Building Block of Germany’s Re-Internationalisation | en |
| dc.type | článek | cs |
| dc.type | article | en |
| dc.type.status | publishedVersion | en |
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