Treaty of Versailles

Part of Treaty of Versailles

80. Germany will respect the independence of Austria.
81. Germany recognizes the complete independence of Czechoslovakia.
87. Germany recognizes the complete independence of Poland.
119. Germany surrenders all her rights and titles over her overseas countries.
159. The German military forces shall be demobilized and reduced not to exceed 100,000 men.
181. The German navy must not exceed 6 battleships, 6 light cruisers, 12 destroyers, and 12 torpedo boats. No submarines are to be included.
198. The Armed Forces of Germany must not include any military or naval air forces.
231. Germany and her Allies accept the responsibility for causing all the loss and damage to the Allied Powers.
233. Germany will pay for all damages done to the civilian population and property of the Allied Governments. [The figure was later set at $33 billion].
428. To guarantee the execution of the Treaty, the German territory situated to the west of the Rhine River will be occupied by Allied troops for fifteen years.
431. The occupation forces will be withdrawn as soon as Germany complies with the Treaty.

The WWI finally ended at 1918, Nov 11th. Then the allies forced Germany to sign the Treaty of Versailles. There were 440 clauses in the Treaty and 414 of them is very harsh on Germany.

The Treaty of Versailles is bit harsh to Germany although Germany affected the war greatly, there were many other countries who involved in ti the war. Others had destroy countless cities and killed countless people too. Allies did the same thing, they are as well should be responsible for that but because only because they won the WWI, the Germany become the main loser. Clause 233 made Germany pay all the reparation fee during the war for all the damaged countries, which was about USD 33,000,000 dollars which gave Germany a massive debt which Germany had fully paid in 2010. Other clauses made Germany returned part of land that was occupied during the war. Clause 159, 181, 198 made Germany cut down their military forces harshly, leaving 100,000 soldiers and several ships. Many innocent Germans lost their jobs, houses in their fatherland and all Germans' self-confidence was defeated immediately. Because of the debt, Germany government add taxes on everything and when the worldwide depression hits, Germany was affected hardly: a glass of beer may cost 1,000,000 marks, a loaf of bread may need a truck of money. In 1914 the exchanging rate from USD to DEM was 1:4, in 1923 it was 1:1,000,000,000,000. The Treaty of Versailles made the Germans' life much harder that time.

Treaty of Versailles was way harsh on Germany but not on the other Axis Force countries, some of them just lost part of their land but non of the clauses to them was as harsh as to Germany. It wasn't just Germany's fault.