The Treaty of Versailles was a peace agreement between Germany and the Allies signed at the end of The Great War on January 18, 1919. The countries that were involved in this armistice were the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and the German Republic, which had just replaced the incumben...

Throughout history there have been many problems in our world. One that stands above the others is the killing of the Jews in the Holocaust. The Holocaust was a time of horror, death, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. This man stood as a light in Germany as the country continued to darken in around him...

Between the years of 1920 and 1923, just after World War I, the country of Germany suffered through a period of crisis. What is it that caused such a damaging phase in this country? The Allies in Germany had established a destructive government whose only achievement was the wide spread of univer...

Why the Versailles Peace Treaty did not work When World War I came to a close in mid-November of 1918, many ideas came about in Europe as to what the peace settlement should be. In Britain, leaders were thinking about how to increase British colonial power. In France, many wanted to perm...

Europe between Wars By Martin Kitchen A Book Review In this compelling account of Europe between the wars, Martin Kitchen outlines the intensifying crisis by looking at the peace settlement, followed by the economic and social troubles of the interwar period. Many of Martin's books r...

German discontent and bitterness in the 1920s began when the post-war peace settlement, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919. The Weimar Republic ended when Adolf Hitler suspended the establishment and believed he had power. The Kaiser had resigned and moved to the Netherlands, and a tempor...

Civilization in Borowski's concentration camp is an embodiment of peoples' values. Many value systems conflict and mix, yet only the inhumane, unnatural values of the Nazi system exists. The prisoners can either accept these values in resignation, or bravely face actuality and die with hon...

"When Push Comes to Shove" In August 1940 the continent of Europe was all but conquered by the Nazis. There was no army left to fight the Germans on the Western front. Adolf Hitler's troops had pushed 340,000 English soldiers off the coast at Dunkirk, back across the channel to England...

There is a great controversy surrounding the Munich Pact and the appeasement of Hitler. Some historians argue that Neville Chamberlain's appeasement of Germany's fuhrer was a great mistake; while others suggest that the British Prime Minister made the right decision in a difficult situati...

As I explored the Museum of Tolerance, I was surprised to find what is an environment of high tech media "in your face" interactive screens that educates visitors with human rights issues all over the world. The Museum explores areas such as the exploitation of women and children, t...