BrobdingnagLilliput t1_ja5h5ij wrote on February 26, 2023 at 11:59 PM

Reply to comment by P045K in Treaty of Versailles being ‘too harsh’ by -Mothman_

> Germany was being punished as if they were the sole instigator and agressor of WWI

This is the correct answer. France, Britain, and the US entered the war on the side of the nation that assassinated the heir to the Austro-Hungarian throne. Germany was hardly at fault for supporting their ally in a war against a terrorist state.

KaiserNicky t1_ja78ym2 wrote on February 27, 2023 at 10:48 AM

The Western Front of the Great War is one entirely of Germany's making. Germany attacked Belgium and France first and it was moreover Germany which pushed Austria-Hungary to present impossible demands to Serbia while telling them Russia would do nothing. The person and indeed the organization which killed Franz Ferdinand - Young Bosnia, wasn't Serbian in origin and its connections to the Serbian Black Hand was dubious and its not like the Austrians ever performed an actual investigation into it. Nonetheless, the Serbian Government tried and executed the entire organization in 1917 because the Serbian Government was just as annoyed by the Black Hand as the Austrians were.