Original sentence: It placed the blame, or "war guilt" solely upon Germany.Secondly, harsh reparations imposed by the treaty hampered the German economy by causing rapid hyperinflation (the Weimar Republic printed trillions to help pay off its debts) and caused people to support authoritarian parties like the Nazis and the Communists
Edited sentence: It placed the blame, or "war guilt" solely upon Germany and its allys.Secondly, harsh reparations imposed by the treaty hampered the German economy by causing rapid hyperinflation.The Weimar Republic printed trillions to help pay off its interior debts, mainly war bonds, thus deliberately annihilating the savings of the middle class.The city of Danzig with its overwhelming German majority was separated from the Reich as a free city under control by the League of Nations.The resentment even worsened when France in 1923 in a clear breach of the peace treaty occupied the highly industrialised Ruhr area at a time when Germany was virtually defenceless.This caused the deprived people to support authoritarian parties like the Nazis and the Communists