... pay reparations but worst of all, was forced to take all blame for the war. Perhaps the most humiliating and worst part of the Treaty of Versailles for Germany was Article Forty Eight, the War Guilt clause. This made Germany accept total, complete blame for the war, something that most Germans simply could not accept. Germany lost the 'Polish Corridor' to Poland, the Alsace-Lorraine lands to France and saw the Rhineland occupied for fifteen years. She also saw her army depleted to one hundred thousand professional soldiers and her naval fleet lost several ships. There were many faults with the settlement. Most are in agreement today that it was too hard on the Germans and that some of the terms such as reparations payments and German disarmament were much too harsh on an already humiliated nation. There was also much disagreement about the size of the reparations bill that was to ...

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