ABSTRACT
Nineteen-twenty-fi ve was an interesting year for postwar Germany. The Weimar Republic was beginning to reap some of the rewards of economic recovery, and the nation was once again assuming a more meaningful role in world affairs. The “spirit of Locarno,” with its arbitration treaties guaranteeing the frontiers of France, Belgium, Poland, and Czechoslovakia, opened the way for Germany’s membership in the League of Nations.
