Article 231 of The Treaty of Versailles :: World War I History

term 231 of The Treaty of VersaillesFirstly, we must proceed to explain the nature of Article 231 in order to be able to analyse its judgement about Germanys state for the war. After the war had ended, Europes, especi altogethery Frances economy was devastated. There was also a general desire for such a war never to borrow itself, as the first proof of modern warfare proved to be ruinous. To deal with this two issues the allied powers made Germany sign the war depravity clause which made it accept all the guilt for the war and be run of this, net profit reparations to the affected states. In this way Frances economy would theoretically recover fast while Germany was kept economically weak so it could never get down to cause a war again. Even though at the while closely non-German historians went along with this, while German historians were not happy with this interlingual rendition for obvious reasons, after a few years opinion began to shanghai away from only blaming Ger many and accepted that other countries should also take set off of the blame. However, in 1961 a German historian called Fritz Fischer proposed the idea that after all Germany should take most of the responsibility. These two take aims of view have been a cause for debate for historians and a final agreement has not yet been reached. firearm most historians accept that the key decisions for war in July 1914 were taken in Berlin, other factors such as German foreign policy (Weltpolitik) and the concretion system remain still as the grounds of discussion. To analyse in depth Germanys guilt for the war we must first look at the most distant events and work our way up to the July crisis. To understand Germanys actions that demand to war we shall look first at its foreign policy, specifically from the point were Bismarcks policy ended in 1890. After Bismarcks dismissal the Kaiser and his advisers were convinced that the most likely wars in Europe were Germany against France of Austr ia-Hungary against Russia and in neither case could Russia and Germany be on the same side because of the existing alliances. This meant the rupture of the Russo-German friendship and the startle point were the two fronts that battled in the Great War started to shape up. another(prenominal) example of a failed attempt of alliance was that of with Britain. Kaiser Wilhelm inherited her mothers admiration for side of meat liberalism and the accepted view of English pre-eminence while keeping his fathers strict Prussian military code of behaviour.