On This Date

In the original founding of the League of Nations, Germany had been left out of prospective membership due to its roll as the aggressor in the first world war. However, over time Germany was allowed membership, and in 1926 Germany was allowed in, being seen as a "peace-loving country" now. That hardly lasted long, though, as on October 14, 1933, Nazi Germany pulled out of the League of Nations. Along with its later allies Japan and Italy, Germany pulled out as it no longer complied with the ideals of the League of Nations. As much as that would seem counterproductive, and that the League of Nations should have just done its job, Germany got nothing more than a waggled finger and a warning not to anything more.

While it might not seem like much, Germany dropping out of the LON signified something much greater. It foreshadowed what was to come, and the lack of a response from the other LON countries only compounded the effect that Germany's leave should have left. The significance of leaving and the eventual lead into the second world war effected the world in devastating ways which continue to effect us even now, though maybe not in the most obvious of ways. In that, even something as seemingly minuscule as leaving the LON (which was hardly a force in and of itself) could show how much one thing could possibly leave the world.

That said, I would assume loathing would be the best answer to how I feel about this event, though in all honesty, I don't know how Germany staying in the LON would have helped much more than leaving it, if only to make sure that there really was to reign holding back early Nazi Germany.