Als niederländischer Historiker mit einem ständigen Arbeitsort im französisch-deutschen Grenzgebiet besuche ich regelmäßig Buchhandlungen sowie Buchmessen in Deutschland sowie manchmal eine Buchmesse. Seit einigen Jahren könnte dem historisch interessierten Leser die sogenannten Jahreszahltitel ins Auge fallen. Meistens reicht die Jahreszahl, zum...

If a politician or social scientist were to put up a Versailles analogy between the events or developments of 1919 and the present peacemaking, one may first of all think of a German. Well over a hundred years later, this peacemaking may finally terminate eleven years of a United States proxy war against the Russian Federation. In July 2018,...

With war veteran Paul von Hindenburg in his first months as President of the Weimar Republic, another Western treaty on this successor state of the Hohenzollern Empire was worked out in Locarno, Switzerland. At the end of 1923, the new Germany's years of catastrophe prompted incumbents in Paris, London and Berlin to get together to normalize the...

Since January 1919, it cannot be denied that the West or Atlantic Europe, with minor exceptions such as Ireland, has repeatedly overplayed its hand.(1) Dealing with an excluded Germany in 1919 and the subsequent post-war order provides the historic example. During the post-Soviet order, Entente and British-led League-of-Nations-style exclusion and...