ABSTRACT
Germany wanted personnel trained in the Soviet Union, and the Soviet government wanted to enlist German technical expertise to assist armaments production. The Locarno Treaties were negotiated at the instigation of Gustav Stresemann and the results were a mixture of pragmatism and revisionist aspirations. Germany and the Soviet Union agreed to refrain from aggressive action towards each other, and each agreed not to support a third party attacking the other. A secret additional protocol specified the signatories' agreed spheres of interest in eastern Europe. The northern border of Lithuania was specified as the limit of Soviet interests in the Baltic, effectively bringing the Baltic states under Soviet control, and Poland was divided along the rivers Narev, Vistula and San. Finally, the USSR emphatically expressed an interest in Bessarabia, and Germany renounced any such interest. Agreement between Germany and Japan to co-operate against the USSR and the Communist International.
