• Ex Nummis
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    42 years ago

    “This is not a peace. It is an armistice for twenty years!”

    Ferdinand Foch, 1921

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      52 years ago

      He was right for the wrong reasons. He believed the treaty was too lenient, when in retrospect it seems pretty clear that the punitive nature of the treaty was a significant factor in Hitler rising to power and then WW2 starting.