How far was Germany justified in complainingAbout the treaty of Versailles.

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How far was Germany justified in complaining

About the treaty of Versailles.

On June 1919 the treaty of Versailles was signed by two unimportant people, Belle and Muller. They weren't allowed to see the points before signing it ,they were simply told that sign it or war will continue. So they signed it ,when the German government actually had the chance to look at points, they realized that there were lots of harsh and unfair points which the Germans could not accept. So I think that Germany was justified in complaining about some part s of the treaty.

The Germans complained because they were treated harshly ,the result of the Versailles treaty were severe .Germany was to take the blame for starting the war .(The War Guilt clause).France who is scared of Germany 's power (from the last to attacks)wanted Germany's army to go down to 100,000 men and also they were volunteers, not only that all her military vehicles ,aircrafts, submarine and tanks were all to be destroyed only six war ships were allowed. The Rhine land was demilitarized because France wanted a barrier against Germany. Germany was forced to pay 6billion pounds in reparation for the live and damage caused during the war to the allies. The Germans didn't really have enough money to pay after the expensive war, so the League of nation took the Saarland for 15yrs and made the German workers dig coal for France as a reparation. Later on the Germans were really stuck in finance and told the allies that they did not have enough money to pay. However the French did not believe them along with Belgium they sent 100,000 men into Ruhr region and made the Germans get coal. The German people did not co-operate with the invaders within a few months the allies realized that direct action did not work. All of Germany's colony was mandated and given to the France and Britain to look after for the league of nations. Lands itself in Germany was taken away to form new states etc. For example the corridor was given to Poland so that it would have access to the sea but this separated East Prussia from the rest of Germany(That is why Germany invaded Poland in the World War 2) .The city Danzig was turned into a free city, North Schleswig was plebiscites (People voted whether the wanted to be under German rule or Danish and they voted for Denmark)
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It was right for Germany to complain about some of the points , because it was actually Austria who started the war ,when the Archduke was killed in Serbia by a Serb student .Austria declared war on Serbia and then Russia went to Serbia's aid since Germany was Austria 's ally they mobilized and France was Russia's ally so they mobilized also, we can see that it was not Germany who started the war and should not be completely blamed on it .Germany lost pride because they do not have a large army they also saw that their ...

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