The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on 28 June 1919, was intended to bring peace following World War I — but instead ...

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 ...

Some people felt the Treaty of Versailles had been too harsh in the terms it imposed on Germany, and that it was reasonable for Hitler to want to reverse some of it. During the 1930s, Germany ...

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 ...

Hitler sent some 30,000 troops into the Rhineland, a German region that had provided a buffer between Germany and France, which, according to the Treaty of Versailles, was to remain demilitarized.

Adolf Hitler was disillusioned and bitter after World War One. He felt the war had ended too soon and the Weimar Republic had sold Germany out by agreeing to the Treaty of Versailles. In 1919 he ...