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On March 7,
1936, exploiting disagreements among the Western powers and their
preoccupation with the crisis in Ethiopia, Hitler occupied the
Rhineland region, which had been demilitarized since the Versailles
accords. Hitler had made up his mind to occupy this area in
February, regarding the signing of a French-Soviet agreement in
early March as a pretext to breach the 1925 Locarno accords, which
had ended the border dispute between Germany and France. Despite
this act of aggression, the European powers refrained from taking
meaningful action against Germany.
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