In the last years of the increasingly unstable Weimar Republic, as democracy was fraying, German governments started to use their opponents’ radicalism in an effort to extract security concessions from the Western powers. Domestic political pressure became a source of heightened international tension.
两次大战之间的德国政权是魏玛共和国，它的最后日子变得风雨飘摇，民主派内争不断，德国政府于是转而采纳反对党的激进主义，要求西方列强撤出莱茵非军事区。民主政治的内部压力成了国际矛盾的一个加剧因素。