German-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Neutrality

© hrono The soviet ambassador Nikolai N. Krestinsky

Reich Foreign Minister Gustav Stresemann (DVP) and the Soviet ambassador Nikolai N. Krestinsky sign the German-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Neutrality on 24 April 1926. The „Berlin Treaty“, limited to a term of five years, concerns military disputes by one treaty partner against a third nation, guaranteeing the other partner’s neutrality, providing for development of economic relations, and intensifying cooperation between the Reich Army and the Red Army.