Was the Treaty of Versailles really to blame for the rise of the Nazis?

The 1919 Versailles peace conference that followed the end of the first world war became the most famous, or notorious, diplomatic negotiation in history. Much influenced by John Maynard Keynes, an impassioned sympathiser for the German predicament, it was branded for the rest of the twentieth century as a failure, the injustice of which bore heavy responsibility for the rise of Hitler.

Scholarly historical opinion about Versailles has moved MacMillan’s way, since the publication of Peacemakers

Then, in 2001, along came Canadian historian Margaret MacMillan, comparatively unknown outside the academic world, and her book Peacemakers . This was not only a commanding narrative of what took place in Paris during the six months when the world’s mightiest leaders rubbed shoulders with suppli