Reintroduction of military conscription

© Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin Headline on 16 March 1934: Reintroduction of Military Conscription in Germany

On 16 March 1935 military conscription is reintroduced in the German Reich – a further violation of the rearmament conditions of the 1919 Treaty of Versailles which Adolf Hitler, as he publicly announces, intends to ignore completely from now on. Hitler intends to build up a „Wehrmacht“ numbering 580,000 men. In the Treaty of Versailles an upper limit of 100,000 men had been set. Germany’s opponents from the First World War limit themselves to verbal protests. No sanctions are imposed against the Reich.