23h 52min, apr 13, 1936 y - One of Hitler's foreign policy aims was to destroy communism + Russia. They were willing to let the issue slide if Hitler did their dirty work. Anyway if they tried to punish Germany/weaken it in any way it would be vulnerable to a commmunist uprising like the Bolshevik Revolution of 1918.
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