Versailles #58: Reparations and War Guilt
When Diplomacy Fails Podcast
Zack Twamley
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 27 April 2019
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
It's time we cleared the air about reparations and war guilt, arguably the two most controversial elements of the Treaty of Versailles. Here, making use of studies long since ignored or forgotten, we unwrap the reality of the Germans were actually faced with, what the infamous articles actually said, and why the Germans determined, rather than face their mistakes, to make up a whole load of stuff about how unfair their lot was! It's a stunning tale of propaganda and deliberate duping, and may be one of the most revealing episodes we release, so have a listen!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there, Zach Twomley here for When the Pelosi Fails podcast. You're listening to the Versailles |
| 0:04.6 | Project and I'm very, very happy to have you on board. If you weren't aware, we've been doing this |
| 0:10.1 | since mid-November, so if this is your first time listening, you're very unlikely to know what's |
| 0:15.4 | going on. But if you have an interest in all things 1919, if you want to know more about reparations then maybe this |
| 0:22.5 | is your jam maybe you don't need those other 57 episodes to bring you up to speed and maybe you |
| 0:27.3 | just want to see what when diplomacy fails and zach Twomley is all about if so welcome welcome i'm so happy |
| 0:33.6 | to have you and i really hope i don't scare you all the way. Normally, well, as normal as I can be, |
| 0:40.0 | we wouldn't be having this many episodes every single week. But because people operating a century |
| 0:45.7 | ago weren't really thinking about a little old me, and because I've taken it upon myself to |
| 0:50.0 | detail what happened at the Paris Peace Conference a century ago. Yeah, it's been a very busy |
| 0:57.2 | last few months, but I'm able to spend all of this time and pay all this attention to detail |
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