After 1945 a consensus formed on the European continent that there now existed an opportunity to remake the European order in such a way as to turn the page on Europe's bloody past.
To make war between France and Germany - Europe's historic curse - not just difficult or undesirable, but actually impossible.
I have spent much of this year tracking down the men and women who were in the vanguard of building what they believed was a better world.
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