Starting the 1909 Blitzen-Benz, UNEDITED, @ Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2024
- The Blitzen-Benz was purpose built to do just one thing, to break speed records (not racing), and it did repeatedly from 1909 through 1911.
(Edited version: • 1909 Blitzen-Benz at P... )
Its speed of 228.1km/h (141.73mph) on April 23rd, 1911, driven by Bob Burman at Daytona Beach, stood as a record until 1919. Twice the speed of the fastest airplane, (12 April, 1911, Alfred Leblanc @ 69.442mph/111.801kph in a Blériot Blériot) and even shattering the record speed of 210km/h set by a locomotive in 1903.
This record was not even officially broken in an airplane until 1920!
Of the six originally built, this is one of only two that exist today, and is displayed at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart, Germany.
While the extended and nuanced effort required to start the Blitzen-Benz on a cool coastal morning can try the patience of some viewers, its historical significance and ground-breaking engineering brilliance still place it amongst the greatest motor-vehicle achievements of all time, and the dozens witnessing this effort felt it was one of the highlights of many great moments at Pebble Beach Concours d'Elegance 2011.
Here's a great collection of vintage and modern images of the Blitzen-Benz and other historic speed record contenders:
www.flickriver....
Specs:
displacement 21500 cc / 1312.0 in³
bore 185 mm / 7.28 in
stroke 200 mm / 7.87 in
compression 5.8:1
power 149.1 kw / 200 bhp @ 1600 rpm
specific output 9.3 bhp per litre
bhp/weight 137.93 bhp per tonne
Tis is not just a car, it is both a technical masterpiece and a piece of art. Absolutely beautiful.
Truly. Look at that tasteful livery, all of the mirror-polished brass.
6:35 Art in Motion!!! Beautiful!!! Got to love that "pedestrian safe" radiator design, quickly relieves undo suffering in a pedestrian collision.
Quick death by german Mercedes Benz 21,5 litre
"Pedestrians? On our road?"
Looks like it would be perfect position to take out the aorta of an adult.
That's exactly the same amount of time needed to start a car in horror films.
😂😂😂😂
Nope the same amount of time to start any common American car from the 1970- 90ies
That was good.
And they are all 5.0 sounds in movies
Same amount of time it takes to walk to town! 🤓
"Gentlemen, start your engines!" Crowd takes a nap.
😂😂😂😂😂
That's a good funny
7min of my life that I will NEVER get it back...
@@theleo77 u wouldve wasted it anyway on another video
Um, yeah..interesting. 👍😉
I just saw one of these going flat out around the track at the Goodwood Festival of Speed. Bloody fantastic. It was in a race with a whole lot of similar machines (including the "Beast of Turin"), all of which were also going flat out, it was the most epic thing I think I've ever seen.
And heard, I guess.
Whoever piloted that to 140mph back in the day, had balls of pure German steel.
Balls of Kruppstahl!
After someone else started the engine for him
bob bob You mean he had rusty balls?
@@jacobhall979 thats a german car and by that time
140km/h not miles!🤦♂️
i was 9 years old when this video started. i am 67 now.
"Hurry" the cops are coming... Just give me another 10 more minutes.
@@Scott-vx2ks Das coppers, Das coppers! we are Das fuckenheimered.
Ha ha i know....i grew a fkin beard watching this
@@TheMattzki hella funny.
@sly123 it’s 2.45am, everyone in the house *was* asleep. Then I read that. 😂😂🤣🤣🤣😭😭👍👍
@EarthAdvocate
*actually 8 cars were built.*
1935 mercedes benz built car no.7 (shown in this video) partially with parts
from car no.6, and remaining parts from car no.3, which 1922 was almost
fully destroyed in a crash. and 2004 an american collector built car no.8
with help of mercedes benz. as a model for the private project, the mercedes
benz museum provided him with his own blitzen benz (car no.7) for one year.
in order for the replica to be as true to the original as possible, he received the
parts of the crash car (no.3) in the mercedes magazine, including the engine
no.9141 and a few ancillaries. parts of an original body still existed in the
united states.
greetings from germany 🙂
Engineering becomes artwork. Imagine the pride in building one. It really shows.
That's why you wait with a running engine ;)
Não falei nada.
And the Germans are carrying on Workmanship.
Well, I'm never going to complain about how hard my lawn mower is to start again.
Dad, can I borrow the Benz? Sure son if you can get it started!
Don't be silly, Clint! The family that could afford such a beast would have had great herds of tame chauffeurs roaming the grounds of their Schloss. In fact, I'll bet even the chauffeurs had their own butlers and footmen, so the start-up would have been an even more complicated affair. "Always follow the chain of command..."
Worth waiting for, though! ;-)
Elli P great point! Lol
"Hans, what are you toing with ze car?"
"I'm starting him up for ze roat trip on Freitag, Greta.."
"But itz only Wednesday!"
What da f@ck..hahaha
I know, Greta. I‘m pretty late this week.
It's so nice to hear the Benz. My great-great uncle Bob Burman drove this car. Thanks Bob !!
Brian, this is the greatest comment of all! Thanks for checking in, and I hope your family has a treasure trove of stories, pictures and pride for what your great-great uncle achieved. They were true pioneers back then, with skill, and nerves of steel.
+EarthAdvocate You are absolutely right, Bob Burman achieved several International Records in 1911, with flying start over a kilometer he reached 226,7 km/ h, about 141,5 m/h . over a mile 228,1 km/h nearly 143 m/h and also kept 225,9 km/h after 2 miles and added several american records over 2,3,5 and 20 miles to that. He sure was the fastest man ever for about 16 years(?!) until the big Sunbeams appeared.
+Brian Burman yeah its the greatest comment of all, you've got no idea how many people came to this clip to learn a little more about Bob
Well at least I learnt something while waiting for them to start it.
He didn't drive it much then
What a beautiful piece of engineering!
Makes me think of chitty-chitty bang bang
Beautiful machine. Can only imagine the awe and wonder of a boy watching this back in 1909. Like the Star Trek Enterprise to a kid now.
"Sorry I'm late boss, I decided to drive in today"
you should of taken the horse.
In any reasonably big european (or Japanese) city this would be taken seriously. To get to my previous workplace in Cracow it took me, door to door: 40 min on foot, or 25 min by streetcar or 10 min riding a bicicle or more than an hour driving and parking (anything larger than Ford Contour doesn't fit anywhere anyways)
Lovely! Just superb legs at 3:47. That is the work of true craftsmanship!
Tooth picks
Down grandpa.
I have to admit, I was checking out the MILF in the background as well.
Why is this car not in the Louvre?
More a piece of art than a A to B contraption.
Sumptuous piece of design and workmanship.
21.5 litres though.
Hats off to those responsible for the suspension and ballast design.
I've seen an Early, (1912 I think) Rolls Royce started like this; no starter motor used! First prime the cylinders by turning the engine over a couple of turns. Press a button to turn on a trembler coil; similar to a door bell. The trembler coil fires a high voltage coil that makes the spark plug that is in a cylinder on the compression stroke fire, igniting fuel that was sucked in during priming. The engine runs and the magneto takes over the spark!
thank you neil.
I was wonder how it started.
I was wondering how it started with out the crank also.
That’s what I thought. Almost started a car that way once, except it went the wrong direction a few turns
Great info Neil. I just learned a lot from you. I wondered how it worked.
I can't think of enough words to describe how awesome that car is and to see how it started and ran....
Engineers in 1909 hadn't yet solved the mystery of how to jump start a car. Every time they tried to put the jumper cables on, the horse would kick them and run off.
when you compare this to getting a horse in harness and the cart hooked up, it is fairly close as far as time taken and work done.... and this thing will stay where you park it, unless it has help, it wont run off.
ja 300- can't trust a single horse...
Check out the other video, that includes an interview about this car, with Nate Lander.
Think of this as a dragster or Formula race car from 103yrs ago: its 'gas mileage' was approximately TEN gallons PER MILE. 21.5 litres, four cylinder. 200hp, when a Ford barely put out 20hp.
Twice as fast as the world's fastest plane at the time puts things in perspective.
That engine sound is music to my ears and a hymn to the automóvil engineering 👍
So you are telling me that this thing runs at 140 mph without a diff on the back????? 😱😱😱😱
Not just a car guy but a machinery guy. This is very special. Thanks guys.
Magnificent German engineering! Wouldn't expect less!
1909, how sweet it was. I can just see the engineers sitting around the design table when some had to ask in German of course. "So; do you think this is sufficient displacement to be competitive guys, or do we need to think bigger?"
It might go something like this... please any Germans... correct this!! "So glaubt euch es reicht mit der Verdrängerungsraum oder sollen wir noch grösser überlegen? "
@@like2view "Was denkt ihr, reicht der Hubraum oder sollen wir groesser planen?" (Not quite exact, but probably closer to what they were saying/thinking :-))
The registration clearly states, "NOT TO BE USED FOR BANK ROBBERIES."
Absolutely incredible piece of history and machinery. It is hard to believe that this car is 102 years old and still runs beautifully. I'm sure it has been fully restored and the engine has been completely rebuilt (if not multiple times) but it is still amazing that this machine purrs the way it does. I would give anything to own even a replica of this car. My all time dream car is a 1929 Bentley 4.5 litre but this is probably a very close second. This machines are incredible.
It's like a living piece of art! As a car guy, i definitely appreciate the revving. Thanks for the video!
That car is absolutely beautiful!! Back when people took pride in their work.
What a beauty. Respect !
So great to see these beautiful old cars preserved for future generations to see! Nice video!
The car is a beautiful piece of art all on its own. I couldn't imagine driving that car back in the day and comparably nothing was fast and nothing was near as fast as that thing was.
Sounds much the same as a modern day diesel Benz
They are a lot easier to start though😀
@@mercomania not in russian winter -50
Это не дизель,бензин и свечи походе современного типа
A modern day diesel isn't a huge pain in the ass to start
No it doesnt.... check your ears.
What a beautiful piece of machinery
Imagine 140 mph with that huge chain spinning near your right arm. Scary and fantastic at the same time. Drivers of the era deserve more than just respect.
Start stop technology has come a long way since 1909 :-)
The thing I find most amazing about this... is that someone actually FIGURED OUT this starting sequence in the first place!
@thirteenfingers : The did it by trial and lots of errors! 😉
Once the worlds fastest method of transport. I don’t think anyone can comprehend that. It’s not just a land speed record, it’s an overall record. That puts it on the same scale as the X-15 hypersonic aircraft, not the land speed record cars. The fastest manned vehicle anywhere. Incredible.
That's not an engine, it's a work of art.
Double speed record for top speed and slowest start sequence in history.
I think this video should say, "He did something in the cockpit, he did something on the far side of the car while the camera showed a closeup of his shirt, he tweaked some unknown stuff on the firewall, some other guy turned a crank, the camera followed bits and pieces of it, and the engine started."
Never ceases to amaze me. What a beautiful machine. Great video!
Dude, I'm almost crying. 1909? The soul of this car beats in my E55. Shes put away for the winter 3 days now and I already miss her. Every other car maker is still playing catch up. MB invented the automobile. :-D
Those krauts have made some awesome cars over the years.
Donner und Blitzen! Let's hope their car industry lasts a thousand years, at least.
Hahaha, love the santa reference. I think it will. Mine has 70k on it and feels newer and tighter than most new cars.
Hi are you saying Mercedes Benz invented the car?? Am pretty sure most authorities give the credit to Daimler
Man those lightened rockers helped it achieve a few extra miles! Talk about a massive heavy engine. But boy it sure is pretty, low RPM and loads of torque. Engine deserves to have a nameplate on each bank for sure!
What's the maximum depth that it can safely dive to?
Oh, it can go all the way to the bottom.
@@terryk5412.me balls will be crunched at those depth.
Needed a second to notice the reference to "Das Boot" and "Johann"
Not the best getaway car for bank robberies.
Reaches 228.1 kilometres per hour (141.7 mph)... once you spend 30 minutes to start the engine.
Jack Frost it is if you leave it running
rrrrrrright. . . leave it running. John should be in charge : )
Could you sell the car for more than the bank has on hand and be gone in 55-60 seconds?
Not your type of car, most definitely not, a total sure bust.
has some vibe of a barista working on his apparatus for some delicious coffee ..
Thanks for sharing!
- haha
5:10 he was dying to turn/wind that thing. 😂
As beautiful as it is and as fast as I am sure it is I would have walked wherever I was going before I could start it!
Using this when going to work only mean you have to wake up little bit earlier than with modern car.
@@topivaltanen4432 ALOT earlier..
The words: “steampunk”, “ridiculous”, and “wonderful” spring to mind…
Even if this oldie does 140 mph, you could arrive faster in a 30 mph car with a starter.
But would it be as much fun? What a machine.
What a great rare car! That's when starting an engine was a selabrated event! What a record setter.
Didn't fancy school then ?
*Celebrated*
From what it looks like you first prime the engine by cranking it with no ignition, then fire the tremblers when the engine is top dead center so the fuel ignites, and if it doesent start you have to do it again.
If you fired it at top dead center the crank and connecting rod would be in line and the engine wouldn't turn. So you'd have to align it just a tiny bit after.
OMG the ritual make me crazzy😀😀
But I love the ancient technology...
The man who made that is a superman...
I raced one of these at Daytona, the race was over before I got it started.
Remember the old Offenhauser racers had a pump to charge gas tank , no fuel pumps. Dad drove racers in the 30s . 🐻
The car was started.
Me: What a journey!
Susanna Kristiina yes and by the looks of things after that "very weird" head pat the car wasnt the only thing started UP
Respect: Beautiful car by original geniuses! Must have been strenuous to engineer it. Today's are simply an improved works of our ingenious ancestors!
What an incredible piece of engineering, especially for the time period.
I'm intrigued. I bet that car is priceless. Seems well engineered and I love the attention to detail. I bet those pistons are huge. Does the crankshaft run on shell bearings supported on five journels like today's four cylinder engines?
No steam locomotive passed 200 km/h until the 1930s.
It would have been better with narration. I think he was getting one of the pistons to TDC before engaging the starter. Also, turning the engine over prior to start spread oil on the walls of the cylinders to make the starting easier and provide some protection to the cylinder walls. But I am just guessing and would have liked an explanation.
The perfect bank heist car :-)
better leave it running
bill mcgillem might run out of gas though
Cop car ????
I'm getting a lot of old recommended this is 9 years old now it'll come around when covid comes back. Let's go Brandon!
Since I started to watch this, I've had 46 work christmas parties and I'm still waiting for the car to start :) All I can see is a damn heavy paperweight :)
Your forgot to add the Fahrvergnügen
more than 5 litre in one cylinder, wowwww
Seeing the drive chain @ 1:36 reminds me of the world speed record attempt in 1927 using a similar car....the driver was leaning out of the cockpit to watch the front wheels and the drive chain broke and took his head clean off. Parry-Thomas.....Pendine Sands, Wales. An urban myth apparently....but the thought popped into my head. Merry Christmas.
"hello boss? my car won't start...I'm cant go to work today, sorry"
I'm off to work honey!
OK, have a good day!
One hour later...
I thought you were going to work?
STILL PRIMING!!!!
My God, My Great Uncle Barney Oldfield won the Indy in 1909 in this car! This is great! I still have a cute '69 280sl I bring out of the garage for a fun day. Love the Benz
Merveilleuse mécanique, et très propre ! Félicitations.
Gentlemen, start your engines!
20 minutes later...brum brum :-D
Haha right:-)
"Honey, I'm running to the store"
"Running?--take the car"
"Nah, it's only a mile, running's faster"
Washing machines have a motor; this has an engine.
1312 cubic inch inline 4.
Must have pistons the size of a dinner plate.
Now all we need is someone who can shoot good video.
Early guys were a bit wiser than today men in form of deep thinking
Picture doing this every morning before work...
hey guys ...do not compare the start up time with todays technology . may be this would have been fastest start up time in 1909. this however is a classic piece of engineering of that time. appreciate the people who kept it in this shape that it looks like new even after more than 100 years.
110 years old now (2019) 😍
I'm hoping that MASSIVE chain is part of the braking system and not the drive line ...looks dangerous
There was a driver that lost his head when a drive chain snapped durring a race.
I forgot what I was going out for.
Nothing like a good head rub @ 5:56...
This just in, there's an opening for a mechanic at Mercedes-Benz motors. Not much starting experience necessary.
140 mph in that heavy tub with those skinny tires? I don't even think king Kenny Roberts had the cojones to do that in 1975!!!
My wife would definitely be late for work
Fabulous. Also: "Hey, when I say, 'chain-driven', I mean 'CHAIN-DRIVEN'.
Sweeeeeeet...
As a hopeless gearhead, there is nothing more mesmerizing that exposed rocker gear.
Almost as complex as setting up proxy on Apache on kubernetes pods on kvm on qemu on Centos 7.
That's what I was just thinking!
Fast forward to 6:27...
The whole point of this video is the starting process.
you're rude.
+FichDichInDemArsch Conor you be anymore ignorant?
+FichDichInDemArsch Back in the early 60s I was at a vintage race meeting at the Oulton Park racing circuit here in the UK and was stood beside this car when it was fired up for a run. As I recall,three people came across the paddock area.One climbed in,and after a few moments preparation the other two cranked the engine. It started and was away to the start line in certainly less than 2 minuets from cold. No fuss,no problems. Someone here just doesn't have a clue..and it shows.
@Ben Bucci Oh come on now
The car does not seem to have an electric starter.
It has battery powered buzz-box ignition and a magneto.
He is cranking the engine over by hand to prime the cylinders with gasoline.
Then he switches on the buzz-box ignition. If all is right, the engine will start.
You can do the same thing with a Ford model T with buzz-box ignition.
I'm waiting for the Japanese version to come out.
lol it sounds like a lawn mower! but this really is a beautiful car.
What a beauty. I assumed, that whomever owned one of those cars, at the turned of the 21 century, was never on time. I could have taken a shower, eat my breakfast, and read the morning paper, with the time that took to start that monster. Oh, and ride my bicycle to work too. But again, that was like owning a spaceship back then.
Well, I suppose you don't need to worry about someone stealing one of these.
The exposed valvegear looks as dry as a dry bone. Hope he lubed it up a bit beforehand.
The exposed part doesn't rub on anything.
Holy smokes,look at the size of that engine! The pistons must be enormous!🙀
110 years old German Engineering when everybody else was in the middle ages, no wonder all the Jealousy and hatred to these people who gave us Beethoven, Brahms, William Herschel, Johannes Kepler, aspirins, Printing, X-Ray, contact lenses, took man to the moon and had Kinder Gardens in the time of Charles Dicken's Oliver Twist.
German Engineering was not good enough now was it...
@@beehive300 , It was for that time, You only have to place yourself in 1909, looking at that marvel, it was the Apollo of that age.
@first name last name I NEVER said that, who of the colonial powers is without blemish.The Belgians in Congo, the Turks massacre of the Armenians, the Portuguese, the French, Italians in Libya and Abyssinia , the British in India and what were the causes of WW1, have you never heard of the Treaty of Versailles and the humiliation imposed on the Germans that helped to create Hitler and the Nazis..... and the bombing by the British and Americans of cities full of refuges in last days of the War, the Canadian troops killing of all German prisoners on D-day in revenge for the failed raid at Dieppe, the rape of German woman in Berlin authorized by Moscow and who did not hate the Jews, have you never heard about the Royal decree issued by King Edward I of England way back in 1290 expelling all Jews from the Kingdom of England, the burning and Killing of all Jews In Switzerland, Germany, Spain, France and all over Europe in the plague of 1348 , have you never heard of the Dreyfus Affair and who was rounding up all the Jews in the occupied countries such as France, Holland and Lithuania during WW2.
War has it's own rules my friend, the expression 'History is written by the Victor' is very true and as Napoleon used to say 'History is a mere fable agreed upon'. come on and read your books.
@@Hastur876 . It never fails.............
@@NCX-mt5sy A German troll!? Lots of countries did wrong throughout the ages...this "what aboutism" popular with Russian deniers and paid Gov propaganda trolls doe not absolve Germany's well-documented, horrendous barbarity and war crimes that will live in infamy for the ages...There is a lot to address in that outburst of "cliché" non-sense...just let address the Treaty Of Versaille being the motivating factor in Hitlers' world boneheaded domination... First, the Treaty of Versailles was not tough enough on Germany. In fact, as historian Correlli Barnett claimed, the treaty was “extremely lenient in comparison with the peace terms that Germany … had in mind to impose on the Allies” had Germany won the war. Barnett characterizes the Versailles treaty as “hardly a slap on the wrist” compared to the harsh Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that Germany imposed on defeated Russia. Germany’s claim, which countless historians have parroted, that the Versailles treaty was overly harsh and too punitive against Germany is, as Kissinger noted, “self-pitying nonsense.”
A large stake should be driven once and for all through the heart of the most egregiously false claim about the Treaty of Versailles - that Germany was unfairly saddled with heavily punitive, disastrously costly war reparations that destroyed its postwar economy, caused crippling hyperinflation and doomed the democratic Weimar Republic. In fact, requiring defeated nations to pay reparations to the victors was a long-standing feature of treaties ending European wars. This penalty was not suddenly invented at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference to punish Germany; rather, it was simply “business as usual.” Germany had typically imposed similar penalties on countries it had defeated, including demanding billions of marks from Russia in the heavily punitive March 1918 Treaty of Brest-Litovsk. Significantly, Germany had forced France to pay billions in “indemnities” after its victory in the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War - and German forces continued occupying part of France until payment was made. The French promptly paid in full, even though the cost was equal to 25 percent of their national income.
The next important point is reparations Germany was required to pay were for civilian damages caused by its invasion and occupation of Belgium and northern France. Second, the Allies calculated the amount based on Germany’s ability to pay, not on the actual cost of repairing those damages - which was much greater. The claim that the Versailles treaty required Germany to pay “the entire cost of the war” is completely false, as verified in Article 232, which stated that Germany was to pay “compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied and Associated Powers and to their property during the period of belligerency.”Even Marshal Foch’s oft-cited quote about the treaty being only “a 20 year armistice” is flagrantly misleading when presented out of context, as it often is. Foch was not criticizing the treaty as being too hard on Germany but was actually making the opposite point - that it was not punitive enough. He was lamenting that the treaty did not ensure that Germany’s armed forces and strategic position were permanently weakened, principally through perpetual French occupation of the Rhineland.
Second, despite the fact that Germany lost 13 per cent of its territory and all of its colonies, it actually emerged from World War I in an overall more favourable strategic position than when it started the war. Germany’s colonies, essentially “prestige possessions” to bolster Kaiser Wilhelm’s ego, were an unnecessary drain on its economy. The Allies did Germany a favor by taking them away. The European territory Germany lost - principally a slice in the east to help form independent Poland, and Alsace and Lorraine in the west, which Germany had taken from France in 1871 - was not vital to German industry, which, unlike the industry in northern France and Belgium, had avoided wartime destruction. The eastern territory that was lost helped establish a buffer zone between Germany and the rising power in the East, the Soviet Union, while Germany’s other borders, save that with France, abutted a collection of weak new nations replacing the stronger ones that had bordered prewar Germany. Given Germany’s larger population and, after 1927, more robust economy than its European rivals, within a decade after World War I ended, Germany’s strategic position was greatly enhanced over what existed in 1914.
Perhaps the Allies’ gravest failure in the Versailles treaty was allowing Germany to voluntarily comply with the provisions since Germany had no incentive to fulfil the obligations to which it had agreed. A closely related failure is that of Allied will to enforce the treaty. With isolationist America essentially “opting out” of the task, and the demoralized, increasingly pacifist British population suddenly getting a collective guilty conscience when it fell for German propaganda, it was left to France to try to enforce the treaty. Except for some half-hearted attempts - notably the 1923 occupation of the Ruhr industrial region in a vain attempt to get Germany to stop defaulting on reparations - France proved incapable of going it alone. In Germany’s clash of wills with its former World War I opponents, Germany won.
In effect, Germany simply ignored its obligations under the Treaty of Versailles. Although much has been made by historians about the military restrictions imposed on Germany - the dissolution of the German General Staff, limiting the size of the German army to only 100,000 men, armaments prohibitions, etc. - none of these restrictions were ever rigorously enforced, and Germany began violating them immediately. It was the democratic Weimar Republic in the early 1920s, not Hitler in the mid-1930s, that hid the treaty-banned German General Staff behind the façade of the innocuous-sounding “Truppenamt” (Troop Office) bureaucracy; Weimar politicians and military leaders who negotiated in the 1920s secret training facilities in Russia where German tank tactics and equipment, later to become “blitzkrieg,” were developed; Weimar officials who colluded with German military leaders to avoid the Versailles treaty restrictions, clandestinely training combat pilots; and the Weimar government that in 1932, a year before Hitler took power as chancellor, announced that Germany would no longer abide by the military restrictions imposed by the Versailles treaty.
Finally, and most tragically, one thing the Treaty of Versailles did not fail to do was to give German politicians - from Weimar democrats to Hitler’s Nazi thugs - a useful propaganda tool when they twisted the facts and lied about what was actually in the treaty to support their political agendas. Unfortunately, those lies and myths have become what “everyone knows” about the Treaty of Versailles. www.historynet.com/failed-peace-treaty-versailles-1919.htm