On this day in 1920 the Treaty of Versailles came into effect, formally ending the Great War between Germany and the Allied Powers
On this day in 1920 the Treaty of Versailles came into effect, formally ending the Great War between Germany and the Allied Powers
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*”This is not peace. It is an armistice for twenty years.”*
— Marshal Ferdinand Foch
Ffs, it was not “Germany against the allies”. This bs narrative has to finally die.
Worked out great!
“Ah so that’s all put to bed then. No more war with Germany ever again.”
“Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye… Austria will never unify with Germany…”
“Treaty of Neuilly… Bulgaria concedes to a new nation: *Yugoslavia*… never again will future generations associate the Balkans with violence or fighting.”
“Now for you Ottoman Empire. Do you accept the Treaty of Sèvres? Yes? Well that’s just smashi… what’s that noise? Who is playing [music](https://youtu.be/kxyifJ2ELD8?t=13) in Central Anatolia?”
Interesting fact, Churchill disliked the treaty and instead lobbied for an allied invasion of Russia with German and Bulgarian support
>Churchill would tell the Imperial Conference in London: “The aim is to get an appeasement of the fearful hatreds and antagonisms which exist in Europe…” Advocating a policy of reconciliation, Churchill wanted Britain to be both “the ally of France and the friend of Germany” to mitigate “the frightful rancour and fear and hatred” between France and Germany which he warned “if left unchecked, will most certainly in a generation or so bring about a renewal of the struggle of which we have just witnessed the conclusion.”
>Lloyd George told Churchill: “There is only one justification for interfering in Russia, that Russia wants it.” If she did, then the anti-Bolshevik Russian leaders “ought to be able to raise a much larger force than the Bolsheviks. This force we could equip and a well equipped force of willing men would soon overthrow the Bolshevik army of unwilling conscripts especially if the whole population is against them.” If Russia was not behind the anti-Bolshevik Russian leaders, Lloyd George warned, “it is an outrage of every British principle of freedom that we should use foreign armies to force upon Russia a Government which is repugnant to its people.”
>On the morning of the 16th, before Lloyd George’s reply reached him, Churchill, in a new bellicose mood, outlined to Balfour a military scheme he had in mind, enlisting the help of Germany’s wartime ally, Bulgaria. “I have been asking myself,” Churchill wrote, “whether the Bulgarians might not be given a chance to relieve their past misdeeds, placing an army at our disposal to undo some of the harm they did to Russia by their ingratitude. Such an army of say, three Bulgarian double divisions could be brought into action across the Black Sea in conjunction with the Russian anti-Bolshevik troops….” Bulgaria could be rewarded by some Turkish territory in Europe.
https://winstonchurchill.org/publications/finest-hour/finest-hour-147/coalition-foiled-1918/
If Germany had been forced to actually pay the reparations stipulated in the treaty, there would have been no WW2. The Brits and the French were too soft on the Germans, as usual.
The treaty was fine. Trianon was harsh, not Versailles.
It is all about banking.
The decision to mishandle the central banks in the re constituted Europe led to hyperinflation.
Exactly the kind of hyperinflation that occurs when taxes are not properly designed.
If global warming emission penalties had been placed in all of Europe and Asia in 1918 or 1919 , global warming and its associated damage to oceanic and littoral ecosystems and mountain and forest ecosystems would not be occurring.
Based