France's government army was entering the French capital to commence a pitiless battle against the revolutionaries of the Paris Commune
his Speech of Hope--a significant restatement of America's policy on Germany. Until then the Allies had been united in their commitment to convert 'Germany into a country primarily agricultural and pastoral in character'.
incidentally, isn't it inherently fucked up that the Allies thought they had the right to do that
De Gaulle never forgave the Americans for having denied France a place at the victors' table in the closing stages of the Second World War, especially at the Yalta meetings between Franklin D. Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin.
Erhard had overseen Germany’s Wirtschaftswunder, the economic miracle that had transformed Germany from 1949 to that day
Adenauer and de Gaulle put their signature on the Elysée Treaty; a treaty that was presented to the world as the cornerstone of French-German rapprochement
