versailles treaty

Preserved but no longer current.

Meaning · English

He wrote My Fight — as the title may be translated — while undergoing a sentence of imprisonment at Landeck-am- Lech for his part in the abortive "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923; it was published m 1925 and as he increased in power so did Mein Kamp become increasingly the Nazi bible.

Era: ca. 1898 (Victorian)

Sources & notes

Reproduced from Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898 edition, public domain; archive.org, retrieved 2026-07-31; OCR text, minor errors possible). Reflects the scholarship and attitudes of its era.

Common questions

What does “versailles treaty” mean?

He wrote My Fight — as the title may be translated — while undergoing a sentence of imprisonment at Landeck-am- Lech for his part in the abortive "Beer Hall Putsch" of 1923; it was published m 1925 and as he increased in power so did Mein Kamp become increasingly the Nazi bible.

Is “versailles treaty” formal or informal?

No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.