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State 5 reasons to show that the "Treaty of versailles was harsh and humiliating towards Germany"?

The treaty of Versailles was a humiliating experience for Germany because:-
1. Germany lost its overseas colonies.
2. Germany lost tenth of its population, 13 percent of it’s territories, 75 percent of its iron and 26 percent of its coal to France, Poland, Denmark and Lithuania.
3. The allied powers demilitarized Germany to weaken its power.
4. The war guilt cause held Germany responsible for war and forced to pay compensation
amounting to $6 billion.
5. The allied armies also occupied the resource rich Rhineland for much of the 1920’s
Many Germans held the new Weimar republic responsible for not only the defeat but the
disgrace at Versailles.


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