ABSTRACT

On 5th November 1918, President Wilson transmitted to Germany the terms of the armistice agreed by the Allied Governments, and declared their willingness 'to make peace with the Government of Germany'. The terms of the peace are to be in accordance with the Addresses of the President, and the purpose of the Peace Conference is "to discuss the details of their application". Lloyd George knew what peace demanded, but as of the enthusiasm awakened by the ending of the war, he placed power first, and decided to appeal to the country, and on the tidal wave of popular emotionalism seek an unassailable mandate. In the war Adolf Hitler had risen to the rank of corporal, and after he became the seventh member of an obscure political group in Munich, which called itself the 'German Workers' Party'. Hitler's foreign policy derived from his concept of the biological struggle: might is right, not only in the jungle but also in international affairs.