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Richard Watt’s Kings Depart: The German Revolution and the Treaty of Versailles, 1918-19 argues that the German Revolution played a major part in postwar Germany(Thesis). The history type is one of the German people after the defeat of WWI. Watt wants to bring to light the unknown history of Germany between the armistice of November and the Treaty of Versailles. The intended audience of Watt is those interested in the German revolution and the interwar period. The evidence used by Watt varies from personal diaries to newspapers of that era to re-accounts by those who survived. After the Kaiserschlacht was stalled by American reinforcements, the allied unleash their own push. The Hundred Days Offensive demolished the German army along

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