Source A Versailles conference armistice talks
Philipp Scheidemann, the chancellor of Germany, called it a ‘murderous plan’. Lenin said that it ‘has made slaves of tens of millions of people’. John Maynard Keynes, perhaps the greatest economist of the twentieth century, said that it was a ‘tragic farce’. Harold Nicolson, a British diplomat, called the people who created it ‘very stupid men’.
The Treaty of Versailles has been attacked by contemporaries and historians alike. It is blamed for:
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