Contents

• Foreword
• Introduction
• 1. Blaming Germany for World War I
• Tense negotiations / Gregor Dallas ; Harsh treaty with Germany is fully justified / Allied and Associative Powers ; German leaders wanted to reject the Treaty / Philipp Scheidemann ; Victorious Allies had contradictory expectations / E.J. Dillon
• 2. Assessments of the Treaty
• Treaty of Versailles encouraged future conflict / Winston S. Churchill ; Treaty dooms Germany to poverty and starvation / John Maynard Keynes ; Critics ignored the positive aspects of the Treaty / David Lloyd George ; Great Britain, France, and the United States failed to support the Treaty / Michael L. Dockrill & J. Douglas Goold ; Adolf Hitler denounces the Treaty of Versailles / Adolf Hitler
• 3. Historical interpretations of the Treaty
• Although the Treaty of Versailles was reasonable, few Germans accepted it / William L. Shirer ; Germans believed their nation had been betrayed / Peter Gay ; German reactions to the Treaty were understandable / Samuel W. Mitcham Jr. ; Failures of the peacemakers / Charles L. Mee Jr