A Perfidious Distortion of History: the Versailles Peace Treaty and the success of the Nazis - Couverture souple

Tampke, Jürgen

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1911617281 ISBN 13 : 9781911617280

Editeur : Scribe Publications, 2018

Synopsis

An Irish Independent book of the year.

Did the Versailles Peace Treaty cause World War II?

The Versailles Peace Treaty the pact that ended World War I between the German empire and the Allies has long been regarded as one of the key causes of World War II. Its requirements for massive reparation payments, it is argued, crippled Germany s economy, de-stabilised the country s political life, and paved the way for Hitler.

Here, Jürgen Tampke disputes this commonplace view, suggesting that Germany got away with its responsibility for World War I, that the treaty was nowhere near as punitive as people think, and that the German hyper-inflation of the 1920s was a deliberate policy to minimise the cost of paying reparations.

This is a controversial and important work of revisionist history, which challenges one of the greatest misconceptions of our times.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jürgen Tampke was born 1944 in Brandenburg, Germany, and migrated to Australia in 1964. He graduated with first-class honours from Macquarie University in 1971 and with a PhD from the Australian National University in 1975. Jürgen occupied the position of associate professor at the School of History, University of New South Wales, before his retirement. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including Weimar and Nazi Germany and Czech German Relations and the Politics of Eastern Europe.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Scribe Publications
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1911617281
• ISBN 13: 9781911617280
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 336
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible