Versailles #62: A Wild Soviet Bavaria Appears
The German delegation had arrived in Paris, but despite the confident exterior, Ulrich von Brockdorff-Rantzau would have known full well that all was not well back home. Germany was tottering on the e...
3 Maj 201931min
Versailles #61: The Last Day of April
The 30th April was a strange day. It was barely a microcosm in the grand scheme of the Paris Peace Conference, and it was wedged awkwardly between the Italian walkout and the German arrival, not to me...
30 Apr 201931min
Versailles #60: The Germans Arrive
At long last, the German delegation has arrived in Paris, and resides in the exact same hotel where in 1871, the French government was forced to kowtow to Bismarck. What a coincidence! Leading the del...
29 Apr 201924min
Versailles #59: OTD 28th April 1919 - A League Come True
OTD 100 years ago, perhaps the most infamous international organisation in history was officially blessed by the plenary conference of the Paris Peace Conference. This made it essentially impossible t...
28 Apr 201930min
Delegation Game #13: Foch's Five Pillars
As the Conference at London works towards several compromises, we tune in to some new arrivals, some storm conference scenes, and a weighted meeting between the President Marshal, Ferdinand Foch, and ...
28 Apr 201952min
Versailles #58: Reparations and War Guilt
It's time we cleared the air about reparations and war guilt, arguably the two most controversial elements of the Treaty of Versailles. Here, making use of studies long since ignored or forgotten, we ...
27 Apr 201943min
Versailles #57: Danzig and the Rhine
Here we take stock of the situation by the last week of April 1919 by focusing our microscope on two apparently unrelated, but hugely important issues – specifically the future of the Rhine, and the s...
26 Apr 201935min
Versailles #56: OTD 24th April 1919 - The Italians Walk Out!
On 24th April 1919, Italy left the Paris Peace Conference. This stunning development was a long time coming, and was a natural result of the behaviour of the big three. Notwithstanding the justness of...
24 Apr 201956min
