Versailles Treaty Was the Worst Blunder in History

History is not about morals; it is about who did what when where how and why. What were the intended objectives; what were the actual results… and if they were different, then why.

The fundamental objective of Treaty of Versailles was to prevent another Great War – and thus the repeat of horrible toll of the first one. An estimated 8 million military personnel were killed, 7 million were permanently disabled, and 15 million were seriously injured. Germany lost 15.1% of its active male population, Austria-Hungary lost 17.1%, and France lost 10.5%. War brought enormous devastation to huge territories of France, Germany and parts of Russian Empire (future Soviet Union and Poland).

In that, the Treaty of Versailles was a gargantuan failure – the worst such failure in human history. Its direct result was the Second Great War which killed an estimated 70 million – about 3% of the estimated global population of 2.3 billion in 1940. Deaths directly caused by the war (including military and civilian fatalities) are estimated at 50 million, with an additional estimated 20 million deaths from war-related disease and famine.

Survival of the diabolical Bolshevist regime in Russia; murderous Nazi dictatorship in Germany; the Holocaust; other serial mass murders committed by the Nazis, Bolsheviks and others (including post-war “German Holocaust”); establishment of Communist regimes in Eastern Europe, China, Far East, Cuba, etc.; horrendous devastation to Germany, Austria, Russia, Easter Europe, France, Britain, etc. were all the results of genuinely idiotic decisions made by “Versailles criminals” (actually, morons) and imposed on Germany under threat of starvation.

Treaty of Versailles was a grandiose crime – one of the worst and the most destructive crimes in human history – but it was much worse than that. It was worse than a blunder – it was a gargantuan insanity. Cut and dry, plain and simple.

Marshal of France Ferdinand Foch said about the Treaty of Versailles: “This is not peace. It is an armistice for 20 years”… and turned out to be almost 100% correct (the Second Great War started 20 years, two months and three days later).

How did ostensibly smart individuals – leaders of France, Great Britain and the USA – made decisions that were so stupid? The primary reason was that they had a totally wrong understanding of where the genuine threat of the Second Great War was coming from.

Which is VERY strange because all of the above knew for a fact that the First Great War was deliberately ignited by Russia via its puppets in Serbia who controlled the Bosnian terrorists who carried out assassination in Sarajevo.

The reality of 1914 was that the all-out European war was not a foregone conclusion – it could have been avoided. Only the Sarajevo assassination made it inevitable – and thus the war was ignited by Russia, not Germany.

Hence, it would have been logical to expect the threat to European peace to come from Russian soil again – especially given the fact that by summer of 1919 the Bolshevist government of now Soviet Russia not only publicly declared its intent to conquer the whole world, but created two key tools for this conquest: the Red Army and the Communist International.

Unfortunately, it did not happen. For some reason, all if the above sincerely believed that to achieve the lasting peace in Europe they had to weaken Germany as much as possible – and thus imposed on the latter genuinely draconian terms.

The treaty stripped Germany of 65,000 km2 of territory and 7 million people. It also required Germany to give up the gains made via the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and grant independence to the protectorates that had been established.

Germany was to demobilize sufficient soldiers by 31 March 1920 to leave an army of no more than 100,000 men in a maximum of seven infantry and three cavalry divisions. Paramilitary forces were forbidden. German Navy was severely reduced as well – to a shadow of its former self.

Germany was forced – under the threat of starvation – to accept responsibility for the losses and damages caused by the war “as a consequence of the aggression of Germany and her allies”.

Which was a blatant lie as everyone knew that the war was ignited by Russia and Serbia with tacit approval of France (who wanted Alsace and Lorraine back). In practice, acceptance of responsibility meant acceptance of reparations that were so enormous that they all but destroyed German economy.

To ensure compliance of Germany with the terms of the treaty, the Rhineland and bridgeheads east of the Rhine were to be occupied by Allied troops for 15 years.

The terms of the treaty were so draconian, so unfair and so criminal that the Germans would have supported anyone who would do away with this ignominy.  That “someone” turned to be Adolf Hitler who was allowed to come to power only because only he could do this job – and protect Germany from Bolshevism.

Which made Versailles criminals responsible for Shoah – and other Nazi crimes.