But at such an important moment, the intelligence personnel of the Far East Army secretly informed Reuter not to act rashly and wait!
Because at this time, Li Ningyu was arguing with representatives of the Allied Powers Group at the Versailles Treaty signing meeting in Paris. And this time he could be said to be firmly helping the German authorities. In fact, as the initiating country of World War I, Germany had inevitable
It's a historical sin, but the content of the Treaty of Versailles on Germany was a bit too harsh.
The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty between the victorious Allied Powers and the defeated Allied Powers after World War I. Its main purpose was to punish and weaken Germany and the Allied Powers. The entire agreement took six months to negotiate in Paris.
In this Paris peace talks, all the countries in the Allied Powers Group have their own clear goals, so they are all major signatories of the Treaty of Versailles. Even before the Paris Peace Conference, France, the United Kingdom and the United States have already stated their intentions in the peace talks.
Purpose, and because France was deeply affected by World War I, it naturally became the main signatory to the Treaty of Versailles.
However, the Far East Group has still become a force that cannot be ignored in the earth world, so it also participated in this meeting. From the damage caused by World War I and Germany's several aggression claims against France in history, the Allied Powers ostensibly share the same hatred and must be severely punished and punished.
It is possible to weaken Germany and the Allied Powers group, but out of traditional policy considerations, the British authorities hope to maintain a relatively strong and economically self-reliant Germany, which is conducive to the balance of power in the three continents of Europe, Asia, and the United States, while the United States
The authorities hope to establish a German system as soon as possible that can guarantee long-term peace and obtain a large number of benefits from this system, but they also advocate Germany's war reparations.
Therefore, in the internal group of the Allied Powers, the three main Allied Powers triggered internal conflicts again and again because of their different purposes. Although in the end the three countries made concessions and finally reached an agreement through repeated discussions, the result was that each country
All parties made compromises, but no one completely achieved their goals.
In the end, because Germany was not completely weakened and did not receive any comfort, it bought the seeds of World War II, which also heralded the consequences for both the victor and the defeated countries, and even for the whole of Europe and even the world.
It planted a factor of instability, which ultimately indirectly led to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany.
The entire Treaty of Versailles is divided into 15 major parts, with a total of 440 articles. According to the treaty provisions proposed by the Allied Powers Group, Germany will lose 10% of its inherent territory, 13% of its inherent population, and all
of overseas colonies, as well as 20% of domestic coal resources and 50% of the steel industry.
At the same time, according to the decision of the Allied Compensation Commission, Germany alone had to pay 226 billion marks in war reparations, which was about 11.3 billion pounds at the time. This money needed to be paid in gold. Although it was finally reduced to 132 billion marks through Li Ningyu's efforts, the compensation
The amount is also 4.99 billion pounds.
Therefore, although this heavy war compensation seemed to put a heavy shackles on the German economy, it directly led to the rise of the Nazi Party in Germany. Wherever there is oppression, there is resistance.
Secondly, there are military restrictions. First of all, all the territory on the west bank of the Rhine will be occupied by the Allied forces for 15 years. The German army is not allowed to set up defenses or station troops within 50 kilometers of the east and west coasts of Germany. The German army is limited to less than 100,000 people, and
It is not allowed to have offensive weapons such as tanks or heavy artillery. Finally, the existence of the German General Staff is cancelled. Germany is not allowed to have a navy. In terms of ships, it can only have 6 battleships with a displacement of 10,000 tons. It is not allowed to have underwater attack submarines and cannot build
The Air Force is not allowed to import or export any weapons, and all exported goods are subject to an additional 26% tax.
Chemical weapons are not allowed to be produced or stored. In order to limit the number of people in Germany receiving military training, the Allied Powers directly abolished the compulsory military service system. The service period of all German non-commissioned officers and soldiers was extended to 12 years, while the service period of German officers was extended to 25 years. It stipulated that Germany, the defeated country in the war,
Cannot produce Maxim heavy machine guns.
At the same time, Germany bears all war responsibilities and must admit collective crimes against civilians of the Allied Powers. Kaiser Wilhelm II was designated as the first offender in World War I. Most German officers were tried for war crimes and all needed to be sentenced to death.
When the contents of the Treaty of Versailles were gradually made public, the anger and humiliation of the German people quickly spread in the country. Although the German people did not realize that they had a certain responsibility in launching the war, they have now been defeated, and the German government did not refuse to accept it at first.
War treaty, but such terms are unacceptable to all German people, so the German navy expressed its extreme dissatisfaction with the treaty by sinking all its ships.
When the Allied Powers proposed the treaty, the newly formed Weimar Provisional Government immediately fell into a dilemma. German Chancellor Scheidemann directly refused to sign the treaty and was finally forced to resign. Later, Army Commander-in-Chief Hindenburg publicly told the public that the German army was
It was no longer possible to fight anymore. On June 28, 1909, the Allied Powers issued an ultimatum to Germany, just when President Albert of the newly established Weimar Republic was preparing to decide to accept the treaty.
Li Ningyu stood up again, and behind him were German royalists, German nationalists, and a large number of former senior German generals. Some of them questioned the content of the treaty, and some were because of William
The relationship between two generations, but any person has energy that cannot be ignored. After all, any high-level person has a group of people under him who he has cultivated.
The officials of the provisional government of the Weimar Republic in Germany were suddenly pushed to the forefront. The German Social Democratic Party, the German Communist Party, and the Jews regarded them as traitors and regarded the so-called November Revolution as traitors.
Considered a November crime, the criminal Weimar regime stabbed Germany in the back.
Under this argument in Germany, the Russian Bolshevik regime in the east sent a delegation to request the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany. This was a peace treaty based on equality between both parties. Therefore, Germany immediately
It caused a huge response in the country, and it immediately gave Germany a broad scope for surrender clauses, because it indirectly proved that Germany had won the victory on the Eastern Front, but in fact, in World War I, the German army almost lost on the Western Front
Supplies were insufficient and the war was finally forced to cease.