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Robert Smit's List: B - What are the main terms of the treaty?

    • The main terms of the Versailles Treaty were:
       
        (1) the surrender of all German colonies as League of Nations mandates;
       
        (2) the return of Alsace-Lorraine to France;
       
        (3) cession of Eupen-Malmedy to Belgium, Memel to Lithuania, the Hultschin district to Czechoslovakia,
       
        (4) Poznania, parts of East Prussia and Upper Silesia to Poland;
       
        (5) Danzig to become a free city;
       
        (6) plebiscites to be held in northern Schleswig to settle the Danish-German frontier;
       
        (7) occupation and special status for the Saar under French control; (8) demilitarization and a fifteen-year occupation of the Rhineland;
       
        (9) German reparations of £6,600 million;
       
        (10) a ban on the union of Germany and Austria;
       
        (11) an acceptance of Germany's guilt in causing the war;
       
        (11) provision for the trial of the former Kaiser and other war leaders;
       
        (12) limitation of Germany's army to 100,000 men with no conscription, no tanks, no heavy artillery, no poison-gas supplies, no aircraft and no airships;
       
        (13) the limitation of the German Navy to vessels under 100,000 tons, with no submarines;
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