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Why the Treaty of Versailles failed
The footage looks at the reasons why Germans felt the Treaty of Versailles was unfair, feelings that were embodied in a German cartoon of the 1920s. There was a lack of negotiation, the economy was wrecked by reparations and the redrawing of the map of Europe did not allow the self-determination, promised in Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, to be applied to Germans. Comments from Fritz Thyssen, a German industrialist, provide a contemporaneous view.
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