The Treaty of Versailles was a mere settlement to prevent future wars. France should be happy with the Treaty of Versailles since Clause 231 forced Germans to accept all responsability for the war and was made for all damage caused by the war. Furthermore the Germans had next to no army as it only had an army of 100'000 men, 6 battleships and 30 smaller vessels, they had no aeroplanes (airforce) or submarines since they were not detected …
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…not only moneywise, since they had to face a Diktat, and lost all of their colonies, that had to lose all access to the sea etc... as I have said that I believe that France had many reasons to be happy with the treaty considering how much Germany had actually suffered, not only had France been given back the Rhineland, they also had been one of the most powerful countries at the Treaty of Versailles.