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lol the "guilt clause" was deliberately mistranslated to the German people by the German government. It didn't actually say Germany was responsible for ww1, it said thr central powers were (Germany and her allies), and both Vienna, Budapest, Sofia and Constantinople were given the same wording of their country plus their allies being responsible.
The intention of article 231 was to give war reparations legal binding, not to humiliate Germany.
And before you start sperging about war reparations being unjustified: 95% of the war between Germany and the allies had been on allied soil, and Germany exit the war before a single soldier set foot on German soil.
Of those areas fought, France most industrialized regions had been there, and the Germans had pillaged and looted it during the occupation, it had been destroyed in the crossfire, and more importantly, the German army had scorched and looted it in the 1918 retreat specifically to make French recovery as difficult as possible.
It should also be said that Germany forced war reparations on France in their previous war that Germany had won, reparations that amounted to 5 billion francs and a German military occupation of French industrial area to force reparations.
It should also be said that even before Hitler came to power, the allies had lowered Germanys debts substantially several times and used their own credit to aid Germany repaying it, and ultimately said nothing when the Germans stopped paying, which again, started to happen even before Hitler came to power.
