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    History How culpable is Versailles for Nazi Germany?

    It's already been explained why that would never fly. For starters, the Germans were tired of war, but not tired of living. They actually threw in the towel with the expectation that Wilson's fourteen points were going to be the basis for the peace. Instead, the settlement was far more cruel. If...
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    History How culpable is Versailles for Nazi Germany?

    Versailles very much was a dictate, not a treaty worthy of that name. (It was a treaty between the victors, but a dictate imposed upon the defeated, without meaningful input from them.) There is no doubt in my mind that the dictate of Versailles made the rise of the Nazis possible, and that...
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