Bainville, Jacques, 1879-1936

Les conséquences politiques de la paix - 1 online resource : multiple file formats

Wikipedia page about this book: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Cons%C3%A9quences_politiques_de_la_paix Release date is 2021-01-17

Avant-propos -- La faute des choses et la faute des hommes -- Caractères de la paix -- Ce qui a sauvé l'unité allemande -- Soixante millions d'Allemands débiteurs de quarante millions de Français -- Ils ignoreront -- Le jeu de trente-deux cartes -- L'alerte de 1920 et l'avenir des Slaves -- L'Allemagne et la Pologne -- L'imbroglio adriatique -- Hypothèses et probabilités -- Position de la France.

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"Les conséquences politiques de la paix" by Jacques Bainville is a political analysis written in 1920 that denounces the Treaty of Versailles. Bainville argues the treaty left Germany too powerful while giving it too many reasons to break it—calling it "too soft for what is harsh, and too harsh for what is soft." He predicted Germany would remilitarize, annex Austria, provoke crisis with Czechoslovakia, and form a pact with Russia against Poland. His analysis proved remarkably prescient when World War II unfolded largely as he foresaw. (This is an automatically generated summary.)



Treaty of Versailles (1919 June 28) Europe -- Politics and government -- 1918-1945

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