versailles

Louis XIV moved the palace from Paris to Versailles for the very same reason.

It is incredibly insensitive to blame the German victims of the Versailles Treaty.

Because the Treaty of Versailles was tried the first time, to penalize Germany with onerous debts for starting WW1, and WW2 was the direct result.

The Germans wouldn't have been forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles and the conditions that led to the rise of the Nazis wouldn't have existed.

It looks like the Treaty of Versailles story.

The Vietnam War could have been prevented, had the Versailles Treaty granted Vietnam its independence, as Ho Chi Minh requested when he attended the Hall of Mirrors conference.

It's questionable how directly Versailles caused WW2.

This may have played on the reaction of the government, but what I think it influenced the most was the treaty of Versailles after the war.

> had the Versailles Treaty granted Vietnam its independence, as Ho Chi Minh requested when he attended the Hall of Mirrors conference.

The total under negotiation was 16 billion marks of debt resulting from the Treaty of Versailles after World War I which had not been paid in the 1930s, but which Germany decided to repay to restore its reputation.

Greece needs a Marshall Plan, but it was given is a "diktat of Versailles" just because Germany didn't like our government.

The versailles treaty was claimed to be predicated on "national self-determination".

"By the time country was reunified, in 1990, the world had changed dramatically since the days of Versailles, and policymakers decided to write off most of the original sum." So he's still correct.

Saying the patronage system "worked" is a bit like justifying slavery on the grounds that mansions in the Antebellum South were remarkably beautiful, or that imposing the miserable conditions endured by peasants in pre-Revolution France was "redeemed" by the glories of Versailles.

After all, they did the same thing to Japan too, which didn't have a treaty of Versailles.

It's incredibly disingenuous to compare defaults on war reparations, like the Treaty of Versailles, with loans willfully entered into by democratic governance.

Look at the treaty of Versailles, and John Maynard Keynes's polemic against it.