The Treaty of Versailles was unfair to Germany

Hi Billy!As my opponent has put forward a few points, I assume I have the Burden of Proof, and will start debating. I do accept your challenge and terms.First I'll just go over my position as the Contender will be to explain why the Treaty of Versailles was fair, or at least not unfair to Germany.First of all, you raise the argument that the treaty states Germany was COMPLETELY responsible. However, on inspecting the treaty you'll find it states it requires "Germany accept the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the loss and damage". See here that it includes all the allies of Germany during WW1.Your next point: "Germany lost a ton of its land". Let us consult this map: http://relay-of-revolutions.wikispaces.com... . Here we can clearly see Germany lost only Poland and it's territory on the French Border. They had wrongly conquered Alsace-Lorraine before WW1 and one of France's main reasons for declaring war on Germany was a chance to regain its lost territory. Poland, however, had agreed to the unification of the Germanic people, but had every right to be separated from Deutschland at this point. Bismarck's work was further undone as Austria-Hungary is split into several smaller countries."the government was forced to give up most of it's military" was one of Hitler's main excuses, as well as the main source of appeasement in the years leading up to WW2. While it is true they were limited to 100 000 men, they had absolutely no reason to have any more military men (as was shown from the German Republic that followed WW1 and worked perfectly). The only reason he needed more men was to invade other countries, which is not defending your country, unlike what Hitler and Chamberlain claimed."And it had to pay the equivalent of about 33 billion U.S. dollars!" this was multiplied by their involvment in World War 2. Arguably, the winners get the better end of the deal. Besides, they started it. You have to own up to the consequences."Germany did not declare the war. The Austro-Hungarian Empire did (not to be oppressive to them)." Though they were allies and shortly followed the Austro-Hungarians. Besides, the ones who made WW1 a global conflict were the Germs, as the Austrians only wanted to attack Serbia (and keep it to a 1 on 1) because of economic and political tension."Germany had no say in the Treaty. They had to sign it, or else, the Allies would invade the weakened Germany." Several incorrect facts here. "They had to sign it, or else" was neve a problem, as the main correspondent from Germany at that point refused to sign it and was replaced by another German who agreed to sign it as long as they dropped a few articles (which they did). Thus they had a say in it. It's true that they would have been invaded, but is that a problem? Again, owning up to the consequences of their actions."The unfairness of the Treaty caused excuses to be made also. One of Hitler and the Nazis' top excuses while rising to power is that the Treaty of Versailles was unfair to Germany. That should be obvious. Hitler invaded Poland and started another world war." Treaty or not, Hitler would have risen to power. The main excuse was not the unfairness of the Treaty, that excuse lasted a few months before the French Radical Daladier and Winston Churchill called BS. The only man who accepted that excuse was Neville Chamberlain, who is arguably a great coward in history now. It in fact gave more time for Stalin and the other Allies to make pacts and weapons to better face off Hitler. Hitler's main argument for invading the other countries was pangermanism, the unification of the German/Aryan peoples (he even invited the UK to join the Axis, since we/the English are descendants from a Germanic tribe) and his hate of Jews. He blamed the economic collapse on the Jews, Communism and Russia's power on the Jews, as well as the signing of the Treaty of Versailles (which they had little part in)."At that time, World War I was considered to be the "war to end all wars". The Treaty of Versailles was partly to blame for the provocation of WWII." That's a matter of opinion, of course. In my opinion, it was rather ersatz and Hitler would still have provoked a Second World War as he was a madman and Aryan supremacist (the concept existed before Hitler, so you could even argue another Hitler with a different face could have risen). WW2 was also called "The Last War". A year later the Cold War started, and since then there have been more than a thousand wars.