It was Monday, Jan. 30, 1933 -- exactly 75 years ago -- and Hitler had finally ... the democratic regime which emerged out of Germany's post-World War I chaos -- managed to stabilize the country ...

It was of course the Treaty of Westphalia of 1648, at the end of the original Thirty Years’ war (1618-48) that enshrined the inviolate rights of all states, regardless of size. It was this and ...