Wilson believed that a renewed Germany was crucial to the restoration of Europe. Despite Wilson's calls for reconciliation, the final terms of the Treaty of Versailles were ruthlessly punitive ...

The German Government agreed to sign the Treaty of Versailles in June 1919, to make peace. This action was very unpopular in Germany. Leaders of the German military did not admit that they would ...

Hitler's action was designed to create a diplomatic crisis by rejecting the terms of the Versailles Treaty, which had prohibited Germany from keeping troops in that territory. While the citizens ...

German envoys arrive at Versailles for peace treaty ceremony, 1919 World War I left Germany in a complicated and difficult situation that produced conditions Adolf Hitler could exploit ...

Of all the issues raised by Germany’s National Socialist movement, its promise to scrap the Versailles Treaty has probably appealed more strongly to the Germans than any other. Its most captious ...

Germany had lost World War One and was severely punished by the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. The newly formed Weimar Republic struggled to deal with threats from the political right and left ...

German envoys arrive at Versailles for peace treaty ceremony, 1919 World War I left Germany in a complicated and difficult situation that produced conditions Adolf Hitler could exploit, but Germany's ...