The Treaty of Versailles will be most dynamic prior to 1924, as after 1924, the treaty of Versailles will either be resolved by the Dawes Plan, the Young Plan, or will overall be terminated by the German government. Manpower and consumer goods aren't the only effects of the Treaty of Versailles, but we're not about to spoil everything.
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The Treaty of Versailles confiscated 10% of Germany's territory but left it the largest, richest nation in central Europe. It was largely unoccupied and financial reparations were linked to its ability to pay, which mostly went unenforced anyway. The treaty was notably less harsh than treaties that ended the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War and ...
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Not really true; by the time Hitler came to power, the Treaty of Versailles was dead in the water. The Lausanne Conference in 1932 suspended reparations payments indefinitely, the issue of Germany's western borders had been settled by the Locarno Treaty in 1926 while Saarland was due for a plebiscite and the Rhineland due for the evacuation of Allied forces in 1935 and 1936 respectively.
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The Treaty of Versailles proved to be a heavy mortgage for Germany's first democracy [and here it describes several ways it hurt Germany] . . . Most galling in the long run, Article 231 forced Germany to accept 'sole guilt' for starting the war, while Article 232 demanded that it pay all the costs of the war incurred by all the victorious powers."
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The Treaty of Versailles (1919) only applied to the German side. Austria, Hungary, and the Ottomans all had their own treaties. There were many similarities between all these treaties. The Austrians signed Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye (1919), Bulgaria signed Treaty of Neuilly-sur-Seine (1919), the Hungarians signed Treaty of Trianon (1920 ...
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The Carthaginian Versailles fit into these defenses because the Treaty hobbled the Weimar political parties and isolated Germany so that Germans would have no choice but to embrace Hitler."Hitler or communism" is of course a false alternative, but it was a popular alibi for the FRG right as well as a number of Wehrmacht veterans.
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P045K. •. The treaty of Versailles is considered to be too harsh because Germany was being punished as if they were the sole instigator and agressor of WW1. In reality there were deeper causes for the outbreak of WW1 which includes many different European countries.
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Meanwhile, in the midst of this economic crisis, Germany continued to attempt to pay the reparations as dictated by the Treaty of Versailles. The reparations had to be paid in gold marks, which maintained its value, whilst the German currency declined. This made it more and more expensive to pay.
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The most significant work is The Carthaginian Peace: the Consequences of Mr. Keynes by Etienne Mantoux, published posthumously in France in 1946. His father was a French dignitary at Versailles, and Etienne wrote this work during WWII. After the war, A. J. P. Taylor, albeit not exactly the most reliable historian, took up a similar argument in ...
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The Treaty of Versailles being harsh enough to cripple German industry might have reduced Germany's ability to wage a world war, but there would have been some kind of conflict in Germany. Being naughty and doing speculation, such a situation would likely have led to the Soviets striking East on their own to build buffer states (if not to outright support any Communist insurgency in Germany).
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