Question

Versailles treaty was a harsh and humiliating peace treaty justify this statement

Answer 1

The peace treaty of Versailles was all about this :

• Financially, Germany suffered because the new Weimar Republic was made to pay compensation to the Allies for the war amounting to 6 billion dollars.

• Germany lost its overseas colonies, as they were annexed and distributed among their allied powers.

• Germany was demilitarised to weaken it's power.

• Germany lost a 10th of its population, 13% of his territories, 75% of its iron, and 26% of its coal to France, Poland, Denmark and Lithuania.

• The allied armies occupied the resource rich rhineland for much of the 1920's.

• All these measures were harsh and humiliating for the Germans, and also to Hitler.