A Perfidious Distortion of History: The Versailles Peace Treaty and the Success of the Nazis

This is a new study of the Versailles Treaty which rejects the accepted version of the role of the Treaty in the rise of Nazism and the coming of World War 2. Tampke argues that Germany got away with its responsibility for World War 1 and its behaviour during that war; and that the Treaty was nowhere near as punitive as is commonly accepted. This is a new, and perhaps unusual - but nevertheless very interesting - take on the Treaty.