a new 'Rentenmark' by land values and foreign loans. In the arguably the first 'success' of his career Stresemann managed to partly rescue Germany based entirely upon his own charisma and brinkmanship by persuading the people that such a currency would rescue the economy when it was based on intangibles. However, it collapsed a year later.
             How Stresemann would be shown to differ from the nationalists in his region was his attitude to the reparation scheme. Stresemann believed that only through adhering as much as possible to reparation would German be able to rebuild itself as the premier nation in Europe. In reality although his plan took a lot of battering in the public arena as foreign minister he was able to realize the dreams of freedom by living up to limitations set by the Treaty of Versailles rather than blatantly disregarding them.
             Through the means of peaceful negotiation ; political intrigue and economic restructuring Stresemann sought to restore Germany to a superpower once more. Often called the greatest diplomat in German history since Bismarck he was described by A.J.P Talyor in 'The Origins of The Second War' as thus ;
             "He (Stresemann) would defend German interests by negotiation not by resistance. Stresemann was as determined as the most extreme nationalist to get rid of the whole treaty...But he intended to do this by persistent pressure of events, not by threats, still less by war. Where other Germans insisted on revision of the t
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