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Kitchen, Martin. "Terms of the Treaty of Versailles ." //BBC-History- World Wars: The Ending of World War Once, and the Legacy of Peace//. British Broadcasting Corporation, 17 Feb. 2011. Web. 8 May 2012. .
 * "Germany had high hopes of winning World War One - especially after astonishing advances early in 1918. "...despite these victories, Germany fell apart, how the blame game was played during the subsequent peace negotiations, and how this helped Hitler's rise to power."
 * "Some argued that the harsher the peace the better."
 * "The army was not to exceed 100,000 men. Military aircraft, submarines, and tanks were among a number of outlawed weapons. The fleet was to surrender, but it was scuttled before it reached the naval base at Scapa Flow. Ninety per cent of the merchant navy had to be handed over, along with 10 per cent of the cattle and a substantial proportion of the rolling stock of the state railway."
 * "Things were hardly better in the west. The Saar, on the borders of France, was to be placed under the League of Nations for 15 years, the left bank of the Rhine permanently demilitarised, the entire Rhineland occupied for up to 15 years. Eupen-Malmedy was to be handed over to Belgium. An Anschluß with Austria was expressly forbidden. Germany's colonial empire was to be dissolved, as the Weimar Republic took shape."
 * "Germany faced the dire prospect of defeat and red revolution" [toward the end of World War One].
 * "Germany was rapidly falling apart in the last few weeks of the war."
 * "When the guns fell silent on 11 November most Germans confidently imagined that the peace settlement following the armistice would be based on a literal interpretation of Wilson's Fourteen Points."
 * "The peace conference that led to the Treaty of Versailles began its deliberations in Paris in January 1919."
 * "The proceedings were dominated by the French Premier Georges Clemenceau and the British Prime Minister David Lloyd George - both of them pushed by vengeful electorates to make somewhat harsher demands of their adversaries than they might otherwise have made."
 * "The German government was informed of the Allied peace terms on 7 May, shortly after the counter-revolutionary bloodbath in Munich that put an end to a Quixotic socialist experiment."
 * "The proposals exceeded the worst fears of the direst of pessimists. That Germany should lose Upper Silesia, a large chunk of West Prussia, Danzig, Memel, and that East Prussia should be separated from the rest of Germany came as a devastating blow."
 * "By 1925 the way was certainly open for a peaceful renegotiation of the peace settlement, but Adolf Hitler - who by this time was exploiting the economic, social and political crises of the Weimar Republic on his way to becoming chancellor in January 1933 - had an insatiable desire for conquest that could not be sated by such means."
 * "Hitler constantly harped on the theme that the Weimar Republic was born of a self-inflicted defeat, and thus had no legitimacy. His ferocious attacks on the Treaty of Versailles, one of the most effective of his ideological weapons, were thus directed against the Republic that he was determined to destroy."
 * "The principal weakness of the Treaty of Versailles was that it was harsh enough to incense all Germans, while Germany was in a stronger position than in 1913, since it was now surrounded by weak and divided states and the Ententes of 1914 had fallen apart"
 * "This offered a golden opportunity for Germany to make a second bid for European domination."