The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919 after WWI, by the victorious allied powers and Germany. Germany was considered guilty for all the losses beared due to the conflict and oblied, through this treaty, to pay economic reparations to some of the victorious Entente powers.
Germany was also forced to delimitarize and to keep its armed forces and weapon production at a minimum, to guarantee that they were uncapable of undertaking an offensive action again.
When the nazi party and Hitler oficially arrived to power in 1933, they ignored the provisions of the treaty and started to equip the German army again. Germany left the League of Nations, reactivated the conscription system for recruitment, opened a rearmament programme, revealed to the world its air force and created a naval fleet.
