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The Versailles Treaty
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The legacy of Versailles
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No war to end all wars
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THE END?
'A great cheer arose all along the line. We could hear the men... 1,000 metres in front raising holy hell. The French... behind our position were dancing, shouting and waving bottles of wine.'
Captain Harry S. Truman, American Expeditionary Force and later US President
Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. © Stanley Weintraub 1985
The First World War ended in a strange, ambiguous way. Germany's armies were still undefeated and fighting on foreign soil in autumn 1918, and yet Germany's leaders believed the military situation to be so bad that they had no alternative but to sue for peace.
This gulf between the realities of the military situation and the German public's perception of it created fertile soil in which bitterness and resentment would subsequently fester.
In this Section:
Armistice
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