HST 270 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Nazi Party, Treaty Of Versailles, Reparations Agreement Between Israel And West Germany
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June 1919: german government signs versailles peace treaty. In its reparation articles it presented normalization between the enemies. 1920: coup by generals attempting to overthrow the republic they failed and the crisis continued. General seeckt leader of the weimar army refused president ebert"s call to fight to veteran generals. 132 billion gold marks to be paid to allied forces. No way germans could pay this but they had to sign the treaty or else. Rahatani signed reparations agreement(he was a jew, so was blamed for this) Genoa: conference here with soviet union and germany. Germans agreed to recognize soviet union as the legit government. Soviet agreed to not levy reparation demands against germany. They also allowed the germans to experiment and build weapons in the soviet union. German delay on telephone post to the french french took this as a violation of treaty. Sent french army into the rhineland to occupy the region to make the.
