Importance of the Treaty of Versailles

Remembered as one of the most controversial treaties of the 20th century, especially for the effects it would have in later years, the Treaty Versailles is a very important document when it comes to understanding the processes and having a macro vision of the European political reality and world.

Background and signing of the Treaty

Like most of the treaties signed and known in the West, the Treaty of Versailles marked the drafting of a document that put an end to a conflict between interested parties; In this case, we are talking about a warlike conflict. The First World War, which had confronted the countries known as the Allies (France, the United Kingdom United Kingdom and the United States) and the former Austro-Hungarian Empire, the then German Empire and the so ottoman empire.

The defeat in the First World War of this last side meant the dissolution of those three territories that should have agree to cede land to the victorious countries as part of payment for the costs involved in the war initiated for politicians. The signing of the Treaty of Versailles took place in 1919 in the town that gives it its name, in the famous Palace of Versailles. This implied the acceptance of defeat and also, the penalties that came to be charged to the aforementioned empires.

The disastrous results of the Treaty

One of the elements that has been most highlighted by historians once it was possible to make history in the long term and observe the process completely, was the one that demonstrated that the demands imposed on the German Empire after the defeat would end generating in that country a severe economic crisis but also a deep identity crisis when the results were felt as a humiliation.

In the 1920s, after the war, the Germans entered what became known as the Weimar Republic. This was in charge of responsibility to remedy the economic crisis that, moreover, was deepened by the blows of the Great Depression. Nevertheless, the German people entered a significant economic crisis like never before, having to deliver part of its national product, resources and territories to pay the debt imposed by the Treaty.

the birth of a monster

From the results generated in Germany by the Treaty of Versailles, someone like Adolf Hitler, who intelligently put together his speech and his political program by stressing the importance of the German race (to which considered superior) to recover his heroic past and find the true culprits of the misery in which he found himself. German town.

It was so that with time, and the support of a large part of the population, Hitler created the idea that German Jews (who showed a good financial background) were to blame for the hardships and he began to carry out a harsh persecution that would end with one of the cruelest and harshest Holocausts in history. history.