Many Germans did not like the Treaty of Versailles. The German army felt like it was stabbed in the back, because if German socialist politicians had not made peace they felt that they could have won the war.

 It wasn't only the German army which disliked the Treaty, the German people also had many complaints against it.

List of German people’s complaints about the Treaty of Versailles:

·        Unfairly treated, the Germans felt that they had been forced to sign. Also, that little of Woodrow Wilson’s 14 points that they were promised, which were more clement to Germany were included in the treaty.

·        Guilt clause, “Such a confession from my mouth would be a lie.” This famous quote from Count Brackendorff summarizes well the German people’s feelings on the treaty.

·        Army, the fact that German army was reduced to 100,000 men meant that they could not even defend themselves against small countries, which made them feel like “Dungervolker” or the dung people.

·        Reparations dealt a serious blow to the German economy, causing hyperinflation, which in turn caused thousands of people to die of starvation.

·        German loss of land was treated as an insult. Also, the lost land provided Germany a farming and industrial backbone, without which their economy was further de-stabilized.

·        The League of Nations was largely regarded as an insult because the Germans had no means of defending themselves within the League.

·        The forbidding of Anschluss was against the principle of self-determination.

As a result of the Treaty, Germany lost part of its' population, land, cattle, wheat, rye, potatoes, coal-mines, zinc, iron ore and merchant ships.

The Germans hated losing land because it is this land that provided a farming and industrial belt to the German economy and without it the economy would be seriously weakened. It also engrossed many people that would no longer pay taxes to German government and important ports like Danzig.

All this meant that the German economy  was thoroughly weakened, German confidence profoundly decreased, inflation ensued, crime levels  rose, anti-Allie feelings became common, un-employment levels rose.

This made Germany a perfect target for Soviet communism.