When WW1 was over basically all the countries picked on
Germany and made them sign the Treaty Of Versailles, making them take blame for the
war.
If they didn'
t sign it they threatened to send the Allies to invade their country. The Germans felt this was rude because they didn't think the cause of the
war was just their fault.
So they got screwed over pretty badly along with being badly in debt (especially to France).
- They lost colonies to other countries.
- Their military army shrunk to 100,000
men, no air force and only 6 battleships.
- They weren't allowed to join with
german speaking Austria.
- They had to pay off a lot of debt (later fixed at £6600million), this included paying off with goods, such as letting the
French mine coal in the Saarland.
- They weren't allowed to station troops in the Rhineland either.
Basically after WW1 no one liked them and they all decided to pick on them and make them pay for the
war, even though they had no money.