{"id":11913,"date":"2019-07-26T08:53:37","date_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11913"},"modified":"2019-07-26T08:53:47","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T15:53:47","slug":"the-lessons-of-the-versailles-treaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-lessons-of-the-versailles-treaty\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lessons of the Versailles Treaty"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Treaty of Versailles was signed in Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919. Neither the winners nor the losers of World War I were happy with the formal conclusion to the bloodbath.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The traditional criticism of the treaty is that the victorious French and British democracies did not listen to the pleas of leniency from progressive American President Woodrow Wilson. Instead, they added insult to the German injury by blaming Germany for starting the war. The final treaty demanded German reparations for war losses. It also forced Germany to cede territory to its victorious neighbors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The harsh terms of the treaty purportedly embittered and impoverished the Germans. The indignation over Versailles supposedly explained why Germany eventually voted into power the firebrand Nazi Adolf Hitler, sowing the seeds of World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But a century later, how true is the traditional explanation of the Versailles Treaty?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amgreatness.com\/2019\/07\/24\/the-lessons-of-the-versailles-treaty\/\">Read the full article here. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ American Greatness The Treaty of Versailles was signed in Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919. Neither the winners nor the losers of World War I were happy with the formal conclusion to the bloodbath. The traditional criticism of the treaty is that the victorious French and British democracies did not listen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-369","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7019,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/lessons-of-world-war-i\/","url_meta":{"origin":11913,"position":0},"title":"Lessons of World War I","author":"victorhanson","date":"February 18, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Much of what we think we know is false; what really happened matters desperately to us today. by Victor Davis Hanson \/\/\u00a0National Review Online\u00a0 This summer will mark the\u00a0100th\u00a0anniversary of the beginning of World War I, and we should reflect on the \u201clessons\u201d we have been taught so often on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Geopolitics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Geopolitics","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/ahref=\/index.php\/categories\/angry-reader\/categorylink\/a\/geopolitics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/800px-Royal_Irish_Rifles_ration_party_Somme_July_1916-300x212.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":2309,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/the-second-world-war-seventy-years-later\/","url_meta":{"origin":11913,"position":1},"title":"The Second World War&#8211;Seventy Years Later","author":"victorhanson","date":"September 8, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"by Victor Davis Hanson Tribune Media Services Seventy years ago this week, on Sept. 1, 1939, the Second World War broke out with the German invasion of Poland. 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