German War Guilt and the
Versailles Treaty

• The Nation, 1927 •

The attached article from THE NATION was written by Alfred Von Wegerer in the interest of refuting Versailles Treaty article 231

"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."

Von Wegerer, like most Germans at that time, got mighty hot under the collar when he stopped to consider that Germany was blamed entirely for the start of the First World War. This article was written nine years after the close of the war when a number scholars on the allied side had already stepped forward to question, what has come to be called, "the war guilt clause".

Read about the total lack of war guilt that existed in 1950 Germany...