...Germany was made to accept "the responsibility for ... all the loss and damage to which the Allied . . . governments and their nationals have been subjected...imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her Allies." This "war guilt" and certain other clauses needlessly irritated German opinion, while the...

...provision was Article 231, which forced the German representatives to acknowledge sole responsibility "for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nations have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany...

...victorious nations and their citizens were to be paid back in full for losses and damages suffered because of "the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies. "s An "Allied Reparation Committee'"' was set up to decide just ho\v much Germany would have...

...terminating the first World War contained the following provision in Article 231: "The Allied and1 Associated Governments affirm and Germany accepts...imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies." In ratifying this treaty, the Government of defeated Germany admitted that Germany had been...

...by the Principal Allied and Associated Powers Part VIII . Reparation SECTION I . GENERAL PROVISIONS responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing...imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies. Article 232. The Allied and Associated Governments recognize that the resources of Germany...

...of the 1919 Versailles Treaty of Peace, Germany accepted responsibility (shared with its allies)143 'for causing all the loss and damage to which the...imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies'.144 Article 232 recognized that the resources of Germany were not sufficient to make complete...

...provided a very specific legal basis for financial reparations: "The Allied and Associated Governmems affirm and Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany...loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governmems and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of a war imposed upon them by the...

...as follows in the paragraphs of the Treaty as it has been published to the world. Article 231 reads: "The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and...accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for cansing all the loss and damage to which tho Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals...

...'Germany accepts responsibility for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied governments have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany.' Military restrictions Tight restrictions were placed on Germany's armed forces. No air force. Army...

...admission that Germany and its cohort had caused "all the loss and damages" incurred by the Allies "as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies." The facts do not support this allegation, but the Germans were forced to sign: They had laid...