April 15—Today marks the 100th anniversary of the Rapallo Treaty, an act of reconciliation that sought to heal, like the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia, the post-World War One “irreconcilable rift” between Russia and Germany. The Rapallo Agreement signed April 16, 1922 by Georgy Chicherin (Russia) and Walther Rathenau (Germany) resolved that Germany and Russia canceled all financial obligations between the two adversary nations.
