How Did the Treaty of Versailles Plant the Seeds of World War II? The Untold Story of Humiliation, Revenge, and the Unraveling of Europe
The ink had barely dried on the Treaty of Versailles when history’s most devastating lie began to take root: that peace could be forged through punishment alone. Signed on June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles—where German Kaiser Wilhelm II had proclaimed the unification of Germany a half-century earlier—the document was supposed […]