Treaty of Versailles signed
June 28, 1919
In the Hall of Mirrors where the German Empire had been proclaimed forty-eight years earlier, German delegates signed a treaty that stripped their country of colonies, army, territory, and self-respect, and assigned them the guilt of the war. John Maynard Keynes walked out in protest. A young Austrian corporal fumed in Munich.
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