Why didn't the league stop Hitler

• Attitudes toward Germany were beginning to soften during the 1930s, as countries felt the Treaty of Versailles had been to harsh.

  There was also the fear of the USSR as it remained strong in its communist beliefs and countries thought that a well-armed Germany could act as a buffer to prevent widespread communism throughout Western Europe
• Hitler's appeasement construed outside of the League.

  • GB even supported Hitler's breaking of the Treaty of Versailles with the Anglo-German Naval Treaty, 1935.
  • Germany's request for the Sudetenland also bypassed the League and went straight to Britain, France and Italy who appeased him.
• There was little that the L of N could do to prevent Hitler.

  • BR, FR and Italy continued to appease him.
  • He continued to do whatever he liked and the League's input was irrelevant.

  league became increasingly less of an authority, even the great powers with a permanent seat on the council found it to be becoming irrelevant.