Analysis & Investigation

Today war criminals are more likely to face trial than they were in 1919. Although Radovan Karadzic, the former Bosnian Serbian leader may have been allowed to boycot the first day of his own trial on 26th October 2009, he is being held in custody and if found guilty and convicted for war crimes, will be punished for those crimes. However, in 1919 German suspected war criminals such as Kaiser Wilhelm II and General Eric von Ludendorff managed to escape justice.

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The Treaty of Versailles - the peace treaty that Germany had to sign on 28th June 1919 - had been greatly influenced by President Wilson’s 14 points. The idea of the League of Nations was specified in the 14th point: “A general association of nations must be formed under specific covenants for the purpose of affording mutual guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity to great and small states alike”

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The debate among historians over whether the Treaty of Versailles caused the Second World War, often focuses on the Treaty as something that brought about the war, rather than something that failed to prevent the war. There were many features of the Treaty of Versailles, that had the potential for success in keeping the peace and preventing future conflict. In many respects the Treaty of Versailles failed to keep world peace, because the Treaty was incomplete and unenforced.

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This year has been the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, but its significance has been ignored by much of the mainstream media. The Treaty of Versailles was the peace treaty which the Allies and Associated Powers - Great Britain, France, Italy, and the United States - made Germany sign after the First World War. The Treaty, signed in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles on 28th June 1919, was resented by the Germans, because they felt its terms and conditions were too harsh. The subject often debated among historians, is whether or not its clauses were the cause of Hitler’s rise to power and the outbreak of the Second World War?

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