The source is in the perspective of Canadian historian Margaret Macmillan, asserting that Hitler’s rise to prominence in 1919 was not the consequence of the peace terms imposed on Germany. Due to publication of the source within a textbook, the author trusting Macmillan’s sincerity, as her account was selected as a valuable supporting piece of evidence, increasing its reliability. The source is reliable as it is consistent of analogous analysis, such as historian Richard Evans, who asserts that the reparations were not beyond Germany’s capital and not arbitrary considering destruction upon Belgium and France . The source is reliable in the accuracy of the assertions presented, as if Clemenceau had been firmer, the Rhineland would become a sovereign
