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DBQ Station 2 Source: American view of German World War I reparations. The New York World, New York. Political cartoon, 1921.

DBQ Station 2 Source: Treaty of Versailles, Article 232 (1919) …Germany will make compensation for all damage done to the civilian population of the Allied Powers and to their property during the period of the rebellion (war)…

DBQ Station 2 Source: Treaty of Versailles, Article 233 (1919) …Germany shall pay in such installments and in such manner (whether in gold, commodities, ships, securities or otherwise) as the Reparation Commission may fix, during 1919, 1920 and the first four months of 1921, the equivalent of 20, 000, 000 gold marks.

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DBQ Station 3 Source: Treaty of Versailles, Article 160 (1919) By a date which must not be later than March 31, 1920… the total number of soldiers in the Army of Germany must not exceed 100, 000 men, including officers and establishments of army depots. The Army shall be devoted exclusively to the maintaining order of the territory.

DBQ Station 4 Source: “Der Tag. ” The Daily Express, London. May 7, 1919.

DBQ Station 4 Source: Treaty of Versailles, Article 231 (1919) Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles, known as the War Guilt Clause, was a statement that Germany was responsible for beginning World War I. It reads as follows: "The Allied and Associated Governments affirm and 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 as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies. " It angered almost all Germans who did not believe they were responsible for the outbreak of the war.

DBQ Station 5 Source: Various German pictures, 1920’s. Children playing with stacks of hyperinflated currency during the Weimar Republic, 1922

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