The Treaty
...many in the years after the signing of the treaty; thus, it can be concluded that he actually used the conflicts of the Weimar Republic in order to convince the people that he had the solutions they sought and rise to power. It was the opposition over the signing of the treaty and the economic problems of the Weimar nation that allowed Hitler and his Nazi party to seize control over Germany. The German people saw the signing of the Treaty of Verasilles as a backstab from the government for it made Geramnay assume the total resposability for the First World War and obliged them to undertake harsh penalties: this resulted in the loss of the people’s support of their government. The defeat of Germany after World War I was nnot clear to most of the German population for they were not defeated in the battle. It was rather the Allied blockade that forced the government offcials to sign the treaty of Versailles. Thus the government officials were blamed for accepting a defeat people thought did not exist. The Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, also known as the war guitls clause, signaled Germany as being entirely responsible for the First World War, and thus the one nation that had to pay for all the reparations the war left to pay. “ Germany accepts the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected….”1 With the signing of the treaty the government accepted the full responsibility for the losses of the war: hence Germany was left to pay for all the reparations. By 1921 Germany had to pay an amount that reached 132,000,000 golden marks to the Allied nations. On the other hand the tr...