> During this period Reichswehr was nothing
> more than stipulated in the Versailles Treaty,
> a defensive organisation to protect the
> Republic. What was made of it later has nothing to
> do with the early period.
Afaik there were plans from the beginning to transform the small-size
Reichswehr in
a large-size army. I read something about that in Shirer's History of the Third
Reich. The commanders of the Reichswehr planned the Wehrmacht and than
staffed it. There is a strong continuity between the two organisations, so I
wouldn't
go so far as to say that the Reichswehr had nothing to do with the Wehrmacht.
Umberto Rossi
"...io vedea la virtute esser spenta, e i vizi sollevati"
Gerolamo Savonarola
