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    Article 231, often known as the "War Guilt" clause, was the opening article of the reparations section of the Treaty of Versailles, which ended the First...
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    The Treaty of Versailles was a peace treaty signed on 28 June 1919. As the most important treaty of World War I, it ended the state of war between Germany...
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    the Armistice of 11 November 1918. The main result of the conference was the Treaty of Versailles with Germany; Article 231 of that treaty placed the...
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    the "outbreak, prolongation and loss of the First World War". It was established by the Reichstag on 21 August 1919, after Article 231 of the Treaty of...
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    the 14 Points. Notably, Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, which would become known as the War Guilt Clause, was seen by the Germans as assigning full...
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  • others have confirmed the essentials". Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles Causes of World War I Historiography of the causes of World War I Septemberprogramm...
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    Empire in 1918. The Treaty of Versailles was signed with the German Empire before the Treaty of Sèvres and annulled German concessions in the Ottoman sphere...
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  • and in spite of Herr Hitler's recent declaration repudiating Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, they will continue, on the basis of these documents...
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    231 of the Treaty of Versailles blamed the outbreak of the war on the war guilt of Germany, historians writing in the 1930s emphasised the quick arms...
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    from the debate on Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles of 1919: "Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss...
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    consequence of the war imposed upon them by" their aggression. In the Treaty of Versailles, this statement was Article 231. This article became known as the "War...
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    (and Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles) had blamed the outbreak of the First World War on the war guilt of Germany, historians writing in the 1930s...
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    By the mid-1930s, Japan and Italy renounced the treaties, while Germany renounced the Treaty of Versailles which had limited its navy. Naval arms limitation...
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    162–163 Treaty of Sèvres, articles 231-6 Treaty of Neuilly, Article 127 Treaty of Neuilly, Article 128 Treaty of Versailles, Annex IV–V Treaty of Saint-Germain-en-Laye...
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    ("question", "issue"). Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles is at the heart of the issue; also known as the "War Guilt Clause", article 231 delineated German...
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    Paul von Hindenburg (category Grand Crosses of the Order of the Cross of Liberty)
    repudiating Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles. He declared that Germany entered the war as "the means of self-assertion against a world full of enemies...
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    which the Allies would rely in 1919 to formulate Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles assigning the exclusive responsibility for the outbreak of the war...
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  • Reparation (legal) Reparations Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles Primary sources "No. 2137: ISRAEL and FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF GERMANY Agreement (with schedule...
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    Raymond Poincaré (category Members of the 4th Chamber of Deputies of the French Third Republic)
    was the worldwide propaganda campaign started in April 1922 blaming France for World War I as a means of disproving Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles...
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  • Paul W. Schroeder (category Historians of the United States)
    and Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, Schroeder laid the blame for the First World War on Britain's doorstep. Schroeder characterized the political...
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    repeatedly blamed the Republic and its democracy for accepting the oppressive terms of the treaty. Article 231 of the Versailles Treaty was widely perceived...
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    The Treaty of Lausanne (French: Traité de Lausanne, Turkish: Lozan Antlaşması) is a peace treaty negotiated during the Lausanne Conference of 1922–23...
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    The Svalbard Treaty (originally the Spitsbergen Treaty) recognises the sovereignty of Norway over the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard, at the time called...
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  • Plan Z (category Naval history of Germany)
    Chesneau, p. 218. Gardiner & Chesneau, pp. 229–231. Rössler, p. 88. Treaty of Versailles, Part V, Section II, Article 191 Rössler, pp. 98–99. Paloczi-Horvath...
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    SS Frankenwald (category Ships of the Hamburg America Line)
    1919 HAPAG surrendered Frankenwald to the French government under Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles. In 1920 the Compagnie de Navigation Paquet bought...
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  • one of the three official branches of the Wehrmacht. Kriegsschuldlüge (War Guilt Lie) – term used by Nazis to denounce article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles...
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    higher German reparations and Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles against U.S. opposition. Although U.S. Secretary of State Robert Lansing had guaranteed...
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    1929 German Young Plan referendum (category Treaty of Versailles)
    politics was the reparations that the German Reich had to pay under Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles as a result of its defeat in World War I. There...
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  • the World War, 1928. German-French unity, basis for European peace, Chicago: H. Regnery Co., 1957 Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles Causes of World...
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    January 1937 (category Months in the 1930s)
    was renouncing Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, in which Germany accepted the blame for starting the First World War. On the same day, Hitler...
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