"Peace Treaties"

Treaties to the detriment of third parties, and signed under duress, are, from their very inception, null and void. The Treaties of Versailles and Saint Germain, having been negotiated in the absence of the defeated parties, Germany and Austria, were thereafter presented as a fait accompli to those vanquished nations, still suffering crippling blockades; thus, these 'Peace Treaties' were legally speaking null and void from the beginning…

Edwin Black, War against the Weak: Eugenics and America’s Campaign to Create a Master Race, Four Walls Eight Windows, New York 2003, 592 pp., hardcover, $27 War against the Weak is a much-heralded attempt to make the American eugenics movement of the early twentieth century the direct inspiration for Hitler’s …