GERMANY: Wishing

Adolf Hitler had always shouted (and his Germans had noisily agreed) that the Treaty of Versailles must be torn to shreds. He had his wish.

Last week, librarians examining the French Foreign Ministry's archives (which had been stolen by the Germans and returned to France by the U.S. Army), discovered that the original Versailles Treaty had been destroyed by the Nazis. It was the one war aim Germany had fully achieved.

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