The Secret Bankers Behind the Treaty of Versailles — How They Set Up WWII скачать в хорошем качестве

The Secret Bankers Behind the Treaty of Versailles — How They Set Up WWII

On June 28, 1919, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, the most powerful leaders in the world gathered to sign a document that was supposed to end all wars. The hall was resplendent — gold-gilded arches, crystal chandeliers, enormous floor-to-ceiling mirrors reflecting the generals, diplomats, and heads of state who had gathered to reshape the world after four years of industrial-scale slaughter. There was Woodrow Wilson, the idealistic American president who believed he could build a new global order on the foundations of democracy. There was Georges Clemenceau, the French prime minister they called "the Tiger," a man who had watched the Germans ransack his country and was determined to make them pay. There was David Lloyd George, the shrewd British prime minister who wanted Germany to suffer — but not so much that it collapsed entirely. And then there were the men whose names never made the front pages. The men who attended the conference not as heads of state, but as financial advisors, representatives of banking houses, architects of debt. Men like Bernard Baruch, who had turned a profit of $750,000 in a single afternoon during the war. Thomas Lamont of J.P. Morgan. Warburg family members sitting on both sides of the negotiating table simultaneously. These men did not sign the treaty. But many historians argue that in the most important ways, they wrote it.