The Four Horsemen of the German Apocalypse

There are four cosmic shocks that happen to Germany, and very specifically Germany, one after the other. I call them the Four Horsemen of the German Apocalypse. One is the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, which suits the Germans all too well. Then there's the armistice, and this weird defeat that isn't a defeat. The Declaration of the Weimar Republic two days earlier than that was the antithesis of the Kaiser's imperial right. And then the Treaty of Versailles, which just serves to underline the fact that all the fears that had started to form the first three of these disasters are not only real, but they are going to provide the context for the entire scope of