They had to accept blame for starting the war. Some places Germany used to own, like Alsace-Lorraine, were taken from them. They weren't allowed to have an army of more than 100,000 men.
In the build up to war, the southern confederate German states voluntarily joined the Prussian-controlled Northern German Confederation. Germany was now unified. The Franco-Prussian war was ended ...
Shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve in 1944, German forces launched a major offensive in the mountains of Alsace-Lorraine, France, surging over Allied defenses along the border of France and ...
German envoys arrive at Versailles for peace ... was gained in the eighteenth-century partitions of Poland and Alsace and Lorraine came with the defeat of France in 1870). Although Germans would ...