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Article 231, often known as the "War Guilt" clause, was the opening article of the reparations section of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First World War between the German Empire and the Allied and Associated Powers.
9 Σεπ 2024 · The war guilt clause of the treaty deemed Germany the aggressor in the war and consequently made Germany responsible for making reparations to the Allied nations in payment for the losses and damage they had sustained in the war.
29 Οκτ 2009 · Most importantly, Article 231 of the treaty, better known as the “war guilt clause,” forced Germany to accept full responsibility for starting World War I and pay enormous reparations for...
3 ημέρες πριν · Treaty of Versailles, peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied powers and Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France, on June 28, 1919; it took force on January 10, 1920. Learn more about the Treaty of Versailles here.
The newly formed German democratic government saw the Versailles Treaty as a “dictated peace” (Diktat). The war guilt clause, huge reparation payments, and limitations on the German military seemed particularly oppressive to most Germans.
The war guilt clause is a provision in the Treaty of Versailles that assigned full responsibility for World War I to Germany and its allies. This clause, formally known as Article 231, was a pivotal part of the peace settlement that aimed to justify the reparations imposed on Germany and shape the post-war order.
the war upon the Allies may be taken to be the merely formal aggression consti-tuted by prior declaration of war and in-vasion, or it may be a morally reprehen-sible policy and intention from which, according to the now discredited dogma of exclusive German war guilt, the World War arose. The difference between these two in-
