#History of Germany in World War II #On November 11, 1918, a ceasefire was declared in World War I, and although the war was put to rest, how to deal with Germany after the war became a quarrel between the victorious powers, and after more than half a year of hysteria, the countries finally reached an agreement on June 28, 1919 at the Palace of Versailles in Paris, France, which was the Treaty of Versailles that dismembered and weakened post-war Germany.
The treaty entered into force on January 10, 1920, and its signing meant that Germany was about to face a dark moment of darkness, and it would be difficult to turn over! In particular, France, which wanted to kill Germany, wanted to eat its flesh and eat its bones, advocating the maximum weakening of Germany by all means, and it was best to let Germany never turn over, so how did France use the treaty to humiliate Germany?
After reading the contents of the treaty, I understand that everything is far from over, and if Germany has the opportunity to turn around again, it will definitely seek revenge on France.
The main methods of weakening are:
(1) Germany shall compensate germany for the property and personnel lost in the war.
2. Limit Germany's military might.
3. Gain control of heavy industrial areas in Germany.
4. Recover Alsace-Lorraine.
5. Establishment of the "Rhine Demilitarized Zone" at the border between Germany and France. ”
6. To execute Emperor Wilhelm II of Germany in public.
(7) Germany's overseas colonies shall be divided among the victorious powers.
(8) Germany's coastline must be cordoned off by the Entente in order for France to control Germany's overseas import and export trade.
9. The Polish restoration contained Germany from the east and redivided Germany's eastern border, and the Danzig Corridor belonged to Poland.
(10) Within the Austro-Hungarian Empire, national self-determination was adopted, and Germany and Austria could not be combined.
While the above demands were numerous, they still did not satisfy the Appetite of the French to weaken Germany, and most of them were fulfilled and could not be achieved, such as the public execution of the German emperor, but could not be achieved because of his abdication and exile in the Netherlands.
At the same time, the above requirements are only a general plan to weaken Germany, and there are many details under each article, such as military requirements including:
1. The Size of the German Army was less than 100,000 people, the German General Staff was abolished, and offensive weapons, such as tanks and heavy artillery, were not allowed.
2. You can't have an air force.
3. The size of the navy is limited to less than 15,000 people, can not have submarines, and water ships can only have 6 battleships with a displacement of 10,000 tons, 6 cruisers and 12 destroyers.
4. The German Emperor was recognized as a war criminal.
(5) The defeated German government must recognize all responsibility for the war.
6. Chemical weapons cannot be produced.
7. Weapons cannot be imported or exported.
8. Abolish the compulsory military service system, and extend the service period of ordinary non-commissioned officers and soldiers to 12 years, and the officers are 25 years.
9. Some german top brass were tried for war crimes.
10. Germany was required to compensate France for the loss of property in the war, in the amount of 226 billion Reichsmarks, which had to be paid in gold, and in 1921 this amount was changed to 132 billion marks.
Although France wanted to weaken Germany to the greatest extent and some of the provisions were implemented, it still believed that its demands were not fully met, and had a strong opinion on the final terms of the contract, and French Prime Minister Clemenceau was also criticized, and the Chinese people were very unbiestipped, so he stepped down in the subsequent election.
The reason why France hates Germany
First: Germany and France are the beams between the two countries that have been married for a long time, and the First World War is only equivalent to the total outbreak of various contradictions in European countries, of which the German-French contradiction is an important one.
Second: France paid the greatest price in the First World War, because the western front battlefields mostly occurred in the northeast of France, which suffered great losses, industry and commerce almost became a white land, countless houses collapsed, and the cultivated land was deserted.
At the same time, France also paid the price of more than five million military and civilian casualties, so France naturally had to open its mouth to the German lion and make it pay an unbearable price, eager to erase the German people on the earth.
Therefore, France's purpose at Versailles was to weaken Germany to the greatest extent possible and to avoid its return to the political structure and military power it had before the outbreak of World War I.
After World War I, Germany was greatly weakened, the emperor fled, the army was weak, the government was heavily indebted, the domestic civil strife was not stopped, the economy was sluggish, unemployment was rising, prices soared, the comprehensive strength was not as good as before, and huge reparations also overwhelmed Germany.
The Allied restrictions on the army made the German Junker nobles and the Prussian officer corps angry, thinking that this was the greatest humiliation that Germany had ever suffered, and after reading the details of the Treaty of Versailles, it can be understood that France's treatment of Germany in this way means that everything is far from over, although Germany cannot resist for the time being, but as long as there is a chance of revenge, it is inevitable that war will break out again, and the final result is that the Treaty of Versailles broke out again after 20 years after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.
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