Question

Why was the German government opposed to the terms of the Treaty of Versailles after WWI?

Answer 1

The correct answer is Germany was forced to pay reparations.

The Treaty of Versailles (1919) was a peace treaty signed by the European powers that officially ended the First World War.

The terms imposed on Germany included the loss of part of its territory to a number of border nations, of all colonies over the oceans and on the African continent, a restriction on the size of the army and compensation for the damage caused during the war.

The Weimar Republic also agreed to recognize Austria's independence. The German foreign minister, Hermann Muller, signed the treaty on June 28, 1919. The treaty was ratified by the League of Nations on January 10, 1920. In Germany the treaty caused shock and humiliation in the population, which contributed to the the fall of the Weimar Republic in 1933 and the rise of Nazism.

In the treaty a commission was created to determine the precise size of the repairs that Germany had to pay. In 1921, this figure was officially set at $ 33 million. The charges to be borne with this payment are often cited as the main cause of the end of the Weimar Republic and the rise to power of Adolf Hitler, which inevitably led to the outbreak of World War II just 20 years after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles.