The impact of the treaty of Versailles on Germany

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The impact of the treaty of Versailles on Germany?

Dear Henry,

        Have a happy New Year!

How are you? Hope your well. Sorry that I haven’t written for a long time, but with the war and everything else that has been going on here in Germany I’ve been quite busy.

I suppose you have seen the terms of the treaty of Versailles? It’s outrageous!!! What do you think? I can’t believe how harsh they are! The worst thing is that we accepted the blame for starting the war (clause 231) so now we have to except all the punishment.

The treaty is causing many problems for people in Germany. It forces us to pay reparations to the allies; the bill is set at £6600 million and has to be paid in annual instalments. The economy in Germany is already in tatters all our colonies and main sources of making money have been taken away from us, I don’t know how the British and the French think we are going to repay them. We have tried to reason with them but they just ignore us.

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        We paid £50 million for our first instalment in 1921 but last year we just couldn’t afford to pay it. Our leader Ebert tried his best to negotiate for more time, but the French just ran out of patience. They sent soldiers who simply came marching into the Ruhr region and took what was owed to them in the form of goods and raw materials. This is quite legal under the treaty of Versailles, although I think that it shouldn’t be. A lot of people have had their goods taken from them by the French and have been left with ...

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