A peace to end all peace5/19/2023 Most importantly, she was even made to admit “full responsibility for starting the war” – a term explicitly written in Clause 231 of the treaty, the War Guilt Clause (Trueman, n.d.). She was left all alone, with even the membership to the League of Nations banned against her. Germany was not even included, much more consulted, in its drafting. Third and most importantly are the political aspects of the treaty. Nonetheless, “Germany was still the strongest power in Europe economically, so that the unwise thing about Versailles was that it annoyed the Germans yet did not render them too weak to retaliate” (Lowe, 1982). To the Germans, these terms offered them severe economic restrictions with possibly no chance of rehabilitation. The Treaty also “provided for the delivery of capital goods and raw materials to the Allies” (Sage, 2006).
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