The treaty of versailles was fair beacause...?

Question: The treaty of versailles was fair beacause!.!.!.!?
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I'm guessing you already know the reasons it WASN'T fair, you want to know the arguments why it was!?

1) Self-Determination was fair, people in certain areas choosing what country they wanted to join

2) Arguably the treaty WAS fair (reparations, war gulit etc) although it was harsh because Germany had started the war!.

3) Arguably it was 'fair' that the big three made all the decisions because they had been victorious!.

4) The League of Nations was 'fair' - it was harsh that Germany wasn't allowed to join but at least the organisation was set up!?Www@QuestionHome@Com

The treaty of versailles (1918) wasn't fair!. It brings to mind the quote from Roman history of 'Woe to the conquered' when the Gauls sacked Rome in 487BC!.

The whole thing wasn't fair!. According to the armistace, ALL armed forces were supposed to return to their countries!. So, Germany packed up and brought the troops home!. England and France didn't!. They left the blockade of German ports up, troops in the trenches, etc!. So when germany complained they weren't being treated fairly, there wasn't anything they could do!.

The treaty was harsh- forcing the Germans to admit guilt (when more likely it was the Austrian, or even the Russian's fault the war broke out)!. It broke up the German, Austrian & Ottoman Empires into nationalist countries; forced the Germans to pay a heavy war debt to France, had the French occupy the Rhineland- the industrial sector of Germany; and limited the Germany army unnaturally to 100,000 men!.

Consequently, Hitler was able to use the unfairness of the treaty to gain power (he had 2million+ Brownshirt partisans), and start WW2!.

And this is not mentioning the humiliation of having to sign the treaty in a rail car (which Hitler used to make the French surrender in WW2, and then blew up)!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

The Treaty of Versailles was NOT fair because:

The Economic Consequences of the Peace
by John Maynard Keynes

"Moved by insane delusion and reckless self-regard, the German people overturned the foundations on which we all lived and built!. But the spokesmen of the French and British peoples have run the risk of completing the ruin, which Germany began, by a Peace which, if it is carried into effect, must impair yet further, when it might have restored, the delicate, complicated organization, already shaken and broken by war, through which alone the European peoples can employ themselves and live!."

What is the saying, "before you seek revenge, start by digging 2 graves (theirs AND yours)!."
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