Versailles, Hitler and Anglo-French Relations

I. The Legacy of Versailles

The Outbreak of a second world war on 1 September 1939 might have been expected to produce in due course a great controversy on ‘war guilt'. But there has been nothing comparable with the debate which took place during the 1920s on the 1914 issues. The angel of peace, in the words of Dr Walter Hofer, was murdered, killed consciously and deliberately, in 1939. The assassin, by general agreement, was...