The Locarno Pact 1925

• On 1st December 1925, Stresemann signed the Locarno Pact – a treaty between Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Belgium
• Germany accepted its new 1919 border with France, and France promised peace with Germany
• Germany and the Allies agreed that the Rhineland would be permanently demilitarised
• The five powers agreed to open talk about German membership of the League of Nations
• Seen as a success because war in Europe was less likely, Germany was being treated as an equal and it increased the confidence of many Germans in the moderate political parties
• It was criticised by German nationalists because it confirmed the hated Versailles borders