BERLIN -- Adolf Hitler sent troops into the de-militarized Rhineland zone today and thereby tore to shreds the last repressive clauses of the Versailles treaty. Coincidentally he announced the ...

The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on 28 June 1919, was intended to bring peace following World War I — but instead produced a greater war. The treaty was put aside temporarily on 19 March ...

Hitler's action was designed to create a diplomatic crisis by rejecting the terms of the Versailles Treaty, which had prohibited Germany from keeping troops in that territory. While the citizens ...

BERLIN, March 16, 1935 (UP) - Reichsfuehrer Hitler, in a sudden, breath-taking announcement, today denounced the military clauses of the Versailles Treaty and proclaimed immediate general military ...