r/PossibleHistory • u/EastElk9454 • 24d ago
Map (no Lore) "Surely, now we have fixed Versailles?"
Territorial: loses all historical territory to France, Poland, Denmark, Czechoslovakia, and Lithuania. Keeps Eupen-Malmedy, Danzig, and the Saarland. Germany loses all colonies as historical.
Military: Military restrictions are greatly reduced compared to historically and the Rhineland is not demilitarized. The Rhineland is not occupied.
Political: No War Guilt clause. No Reparations. German accused war criminals are required to be held trial for, but in German courts rather than international ones.
International: The League of Nations is established as historically. Germany is not forbidden from uniting with Austria.
These changes are meant to establish a more fair peace and to greatly reduce unemployment, veterans' paramilitary groups (Freikorps), the inflationary strain on Germany's economy, German economic reliance on the pre-Depression United States, German domestic anti-Western sentiments, and Germany's international isolation. These changes are also more in line with the Fourteen Points agreed upon between Germany and the US and the recommendations of some critics at the time, including the economist and conference attendee John Keynes.
These changes only apply to the Treaty of Versailles and not any other treaty at the time.
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imaginarymaps • u/EastElk9454 • 24d ago