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Woodrow Wilson: You will remember that the beginning of the end of the war came when the German people found themselves face to face…

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You will remember that the beginning of the end of the war came when the German people found themselves face to face with the conscience of the world and realized that right was everywhere arrayed against the wrong that their government was attempting to perpetrate.
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Woodrow Wilson
Democratic · New Jersey

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Wilson recalls a pivotal moment in the war when the German people confronted their moral failures, leading to their eventual defeat.

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