Vengeance at Versailles
Dr Duncan Anderson contrasts peace negotiations in 1814 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, with those in 1919, when public emotion demanded that Germany be made to pay
Versailles as 20 year ceasefire
Prof Richard Overy addreses the idea that the Versailles Peace Treaty was the main cause of the Second World War...
Germany humiliated at Versailles
Dr Simon Trew argues that the Versailles peace treaty gave Germany powerful grievances, whilst at the same time not totally s...
Vengeance at Versailles
Dr Duncan Anderson contrasts peace negotiations in 1814 at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, with those in 1919, when public em...
Treaty of Versailles
Scenes from within the Palace of Versailles, as delegates discuss the Peace Treaty...
Opening of the Versailles Peace Conference
Following the end of the First World War, Clemenceau, Lloyd George and President Wilson are seen arriving for neogotiations a...
French occupation of Germany 1923
Trouble in Berlin. French soldiers guard a bank as people mill about in the streets, and the damaged townhall of Rhenanie Aix...
Destruction of German airforce after World War I
Immense numbers of German aircraft and engines are destroyed under the terms of the Versailles peace treaty...
Armistice Day
"The greatest day in all history: How they took the news of Germany's surrender in the largest cities of the world"...
The Versailles military clauses
Dr Duncan Anderson argues that the unintended consequences of the Versailles Treaty, ironically, helped Germany to develop th...
