By Jacques Attali, Commentary contributor / March 25, 2014

The situation before us today is not analogous to 1938, but rather to 1919.

If there is something to remember, it is what the attempts to humiliate and isolate Germany after the First World War led to: the Germany of the Weimar Republic and the tragic Treaty of Versailles that led to Hitler’s rise to power.

Jacques Attali is a former advisor to French President Francois Mitterrand and was founding president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Commentary/Global-Viewpoint/2014/0325/Europe-beware-Isolating-Russia-will-turn-it-into-Hitler-s-Germany