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In the chapter on the suspension of the Belligerent Act, we have shown how the simple principle of hostility applied to its embodiment, man, and all circumstances out of which it makes a war, is subject to checks and modifications from causes which are inherent in the apparatus of war.
21 paź 2024 · 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.
Parts 2 and 3 (Germany’s boundaries and political clauses for Europe) were particularly controversial in Germany. They determined the areas that Germany had to cede (Alsace-Lorraine, Eupen-Malmedy), possibly temporarily (Saar area) or after a referendum (Schleswig, Upper Silesia, small parts of East and West Prussia).
The German Government, having identified for itself a clause which imputed “war guilt” to them, confirmed the identification by its note of June 22, 1919 accepting the treaty with certain exceptions.
The translation of Clausewitz's On War is the 1943 version done by German literary scholar O.J. Matthijs Jolles at the University of Chicago during World War II—not today's standard translation, but certainly the most accurate.
8 lut 2024 · The military clauses of the treaty, meticulously regulating the demobilization of the German army, introduced precise and strict limits on Germany’s infantry, artillery, and naval and air forces. The articles of the second chapter of the military clauses even determined the exact number of ammunition and weapons Germany was allowed to ...
Revise the Treaty of Versailles, its impact on Germany and the formation, aims, successes and failures of the League of Nations, for National 5 History.
