t Britain, felt guilty about the harsh penalties imposed on the German nation by the Versailles Treaty so they had few qualms when Hitler publicly disavowed it in 1935.
             Likewise, the Great War had badly crippled the economies of both Great Britain and France and in the latter's case, had even handicapped the birth rate for years to come. These two countries could not afford another confrontation resulting in war. Great Britain was in the midst of the Ten Year Plan where the idea was to avoid conflict for ten years in order to stabilize the economy and get the nation back on its feet and out of the, then worldwide, depression. Even more importantly, Great Britain wanted the nation of Germany built back up because they badly needed the export market and greatly increased potential revenue a resurgent Germany would bring to the world economy. This was a nation with a larger population than either Great Britain or France and a normally larger economy and its absence created not only a power, but also an economic vacuum. Not only did the British feel guilt about the penalties imposed on the Germans by Versailles, they also needed the increased business that only a more powerful Germany could create and support. France was in a situation that while being to similar to that of Great Britain was also fundamentally different. Being the nation that did most of the fighting against the Germans and the one that lost the most men, France had a deep-seated mistrust and even hatred of the Germans. For the French, if the Germans never dragged themselves back out of poverty,
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