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On 30 July 1916, German saboteurs blew up a Jersey City munitions depot, scarring the Statue of Liberty and stopping a clock a mile away. Washington dismissed it as a regrettable accident. It took the United States another year to call it what it was.
On 18 January 1871, the German Empire was proclaimed in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles. On 18 January 1919, the Paris Peace Conference opened in the same city. Between those two dates lived the full arc of German power — born in a defeated enemy's palace, ended in the same city by men determined to make sure it never happened again.