The Influence Of Versailles On The Weimar Republic

At the conclusion of the First World War also known as the Great War of 1914 – 1918, the German State had been forced to sign a vast bout of treaties such as the one in Versailles that forced the Germans to take the blame for the initial start of the Great War. At the time the war had been blamed for the sub-sequential emergence of National Socialism, and the successive financial crises that destabilised the Weimar Republic because of the reparation clauses in one of the treaties. Although, Versailles had fragmented a significant part of the German State, it had left behind essential elements that allowed the German race to prosper and maintain its existence, unlike various other empires that dissolved because of the territorial clauses, leaving

Although, from the reassessment of academic and historical scholars, it is said that the Versailles treaty was the best possible compromise under the stressful, extenuating circumstances, and the hospitable tension residing between the European Nations. If the Great Depression had not hit the European Nation, when it did, the process of social and political adaption could have occurred, or at least, furthered to the point that something good could have come from it and the tensions residing between all the nations could have been solved with time. It had been said that, having been robbed, the German State soon became the robbers to fight against their oppressors and defeat the failure that once resided over their heads because of the harsh treaties and such from before. The humiliation felt and the need for vengeance in the wake of Versailles drove the German populous into the arms of Hitler and the Nazis as the cost of reparation increased and the nation started to feel it. Versailles had been the harbinger of future warfare and start of a greater