PARIS: At 3:50 p.m. on June 28, 1919 crowds erupted in joy and salvos of celebratory gunfire rang out: the Treaty of Versailles had just been signed. World War 1 was finally over.

Signed at the Palace of Versailles outside Paris, the text set out 440 punishing articles that crippled Germany economically and morally.

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