What Is The Primary Source Of The Finishing Touch Germany

was a slap in the face. Hitler soon became bitter over the treaty and over the loss of German The

Document 1 shows a cartoon in which a big bag with the amount of $55,000,000,000 written on it is on top of a person that resembles Germany. This cartoon shows that Europe wants Germany to take all the blame for the war and wants all the responsibility to fall on them. Document 5 shows a cartoon in which a person resembling Germany is being forced to swallow a pill with the words “peace terms” written on it, while Great Britain is saying “you’ve got to swallow it whether you like it or not”. This cartoon shows that Germany was being forced to accept the cease fire terms which required Germans to leave all occupied territory, to surrender their arms and warships, and also to withdraw all sources from west of River

Versailles Treaty of 1919” (Rossel 9). The rules set up for Germany were unfair because

Another term of the treaty was that the Germans had to reduce the size of their army and weaponry. This limited the army to just 100,000 of voluntary soldiers, and they also had to melt down their weapons, they were forbidden to use any sort of air forces too. This had the affect of making the Germans feeling angry and weak and thirsty for revenge. Also Germany was to pay £6.6 billion in damages which badly affected their economy.

It is a reasonable conclusion that to Hitler, the restoration of Germany and the damning of the Treaty of Versailles, specifically returning Germany’s right to be an equal in the world society, are linked. In a speech givin at Dusseldorf Hitler even went as far as promising to withdraw the signature that indicted Germany for starting World War One. Here Hitler also draws the comparison to returning German pride with reinstating the military heritage taken in the Treaty of Versailles. These pairings that Hitler chose to address shows the direct influence that Hitler felt the Treaty of Versailles had on weakening the German people and causing a separation from their heritage after 1919. These ideas of Hitler were not unfounded. He claimed in his speech at Munich 1922 that Germans were burdened at the end of World War I with an 8 million mark debt of their own, and the debt of the other allied countries, with similar sentiment in other speeches . The actual treaty confirms this by showing a 10+ billion mark reparations clause in section 232 right after the War Guilt Clause . A scholar by the name of Graham Darby claims that the treaty of Versailles is not the primary cause of the economic downturn and therefore not a primary influence on Hitler’s economic policy. The data however, points to one crucial fact that Mr. Darby neglects to mention in his article, the Dawes Plan. The Dawes plan was enacted during 1924 and

Source A 'The Finishing Touch' is moderately useful because it gives the historians information about one of the way the treaty was viewed. From this an historian learns the point of view of how the Germans were perceived by British people. 'The Finishing Touch' is a primary source and is a political cartoon source.The perspective of the 'The Finishing Touch' is created by an artist who works at the 'Punch Magazine' in the year 1919.The motive was clearly to persuade the British public that the punishment for Germany was too harsh.'The Finishing Touch' is somewhat reliable because it fits with our understanding of what had been happened to Germany after the war and can be corroborated with the other sources from that time period and it was

“Clemenceau the Vampire’, a cartoon published in the German newspaper, ‘Kladderadatsch’, on July 1919, powerfully depicts the perspective Germany held on the Treaty of Versailles. This particular cartoon was published immediately following the signing of the Treaty of Versailles (the Peace Treaty). The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty, which officially brought the Great War to an end. The Allies, in particular, the ‘Big Three’, Great Britain, America, and France, wrote the treaty, which was negotiated between January and June 1919 in Paris. This Treaty was created in order to punish Germany, and meet the goals of various Allied Powers. The different desires of the “Big Three’ and their opinion of Germany resulted in extreme bitterness in Germany when she was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles. Considering the Treaty of Versailles was created primarily with the purpose, of both punishing and weakening Germany, it placed the blame of starting the Great War on Germany. The German cartoonist effectively criticises and demonstrates their hatred for the Peace Treaty, through the use of symbolism. While doing this, the cartoonist positions the audience to perceive their perception of the sorrow that is being brought to Germany.

France and Britain made Germany sign The Versailles Peace Treaty but once Hitler became the leader of Germany, he wanted to change everything in Germany and make it powerful like it was once before. The League of Nations came into being after the end of World War One. The League of Nation’s task was simple to ensure that war never broke out again but eventually the League of Nations failed. As the League of Nations crumbled, politicians turned to a new way to keep the peace appeasement. This was the policy of giving Hitler what he wanted to stop him from going to war. It was based on the idea that what Hitler wanted was reasonable and, when his reasonable demands had been satisfied, he would stop. There were many reasons why Chamberlin appeased Hitler. A few of them

Ninety-eight years ago, after the fighting of World War I subsided, the Treaty of Versailles (“the Treaty”) was signed at the Palace of Versailles in France by the Allied powers and Germany. The compromise of the Treaty is that it ended World War I. The conflict of the Treaty is that it fed the German’s hate for the Allied Powers and, in turn, was the cause of World War II. “In their hearts was a stern resolution that the fiasco of November 11, 1918, would not be repeated for all serious people in America, as in all nations, remembered that much hailed Versailles Treaty was sown the very seeds of World War II” (Library Of Congress. Manzanar free press, November 12, 1942. 1942. Newspaper. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/sn84025948/1942-11-12/ed-1/. )

As this primary source originated from an Australian it excludes what the speaker would foresee as ‘irrelevant’ information from the perspective of how Hitler saw his actions and believed he was doing a great good to the world rather than evil. Menzies biased views cloud this source from being completely accurate. For instance this source does not describe that happenings of what is occurring in Germany or the reason why Germany invaded Poland. Therefore this source could be classified as trustworthy only to an extent, because of the biased views of Prime Minister Gordon Menzies.

“The Allies continued to regard the treaty as an international contract” (Doc D) Laurence V. Moyer, Victory Must be Ours: Germany in the Great War 1914-1915, 1995 since Germany accepted the fact that the war was caused because of Germany’s aggression and her allies, and caused all the loss and damage to the allies. After continuous years of the treaty, Germans saw the Versailles treaty as an “evil thing which must be destroyed,” and as an act of humiliation because they were made to be seen as a disgrace and cast off from other nations. When Adolf Hitler came to power, Germans admired him because he made them feel a sense of pride, reawakened a sense of self-respect and forced the world to look at Germany from a new perspective. (Doc D) Leading to a huge impact on why it helped cause World War II since Germany now saw how betrayed they were by the treaty, and felt the need to put their trust on a new leader such as Hitler, who could restore Germany into a powerful nation again, in their

How significant was the Treaty of Versailles to Germany? This is the question that has been posed to us for our first analytical history essay. I will go into depth about my opinions on both the long-term and short-term effects of the Treaty of Versailles. I believe that the Treaty had a powerful impact on Germany- it practically ruined their economy, and gave the Germans all the more reason to hate the Allies, eventually contributing to the beginning of World War 2. Although the Allies had a right to demand certain things from Germany (as they were the instigators of the war), they should have been more lenient and taken Germany’s poor economic situation into account. The war was a mistake on the part of the German government, but it was the people who payed the price. I have taken into account Germany’s loss of territory, the war guilt, the economical effects of the Treaty, and the armaments and discussed them in this essay.

The Versailles Peace Treaty was signed in June 1919 after the First World War by the victorious Allies and defeated Germany and was intended to punish Germany for what was seen as her war guilt and to prevent her from becoming powerful enough again to disturb European peace. It was called a Carthaginian peace in the first instance by Jan Smuts (a member of the British Delegation at the Peace Conference in Paris) in a letter to Lloyd George dated 16th March 1919[1] and in 1920 by John Maynard Keynes (also a member of the British Delegation) in his book The Economic Consequences of

The mandate of Article(s) 231 and 232 , (respectively titled “The War Guilt Clause” and “Reparations”) of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28th, 1919 served as unintentional catalysts for the arise of revisionism in post-war Germany, and its fall out of the international order following the Paris Peace Conference. These two articles politically, socially, and economically ravaged Germany, and created societal circumstances in which a totalitarian dictatorship (the National Socialist German Workers Party or “Nazi” party) gained popularity and was viewed as necessary in order for Germany to be restored to its former status as an economic and political world power. The national humiliation and economic burden that Articles 231 and 232 created injured German pride, strained its economy and triggered a resentful and hostile outlook to the “new peace” that the Allied leaders believed they had formulated. The German people viewed this as a “dictated peace” (Diktat) that had been enforced on them. It was seen by Germany as an unfair, un-justified and un-realistic punishment for losing the war, and instead of creating a long-term and prosperous peace on the European continent, the guilt and reparations of Articles 231 and 232 ignited a flame of vengeance in Germany that would evolve into an ultra-nationalist inferno and consume the world into a second and even more devastating and savage war.

Therefore, the humiliating Treaty came as a rude shock to the German people who, correspondingly, blamed the politicians for betraying the soldiers in signing the armistice and saw them as compounding their treason by accepting the peace settlement. They spoke of the ‘November criminals’ and protested “A nation of seventy million suffers, but does not die.” These factors propagated in the promotion of anti republican feeling, the conclusions of which were clearly reflected in the results of the election of June 1920.