That treaty, Versailles Treaty, is what condemned the German people to accepting Hitler. Blood is on many hands.
That’s a bit too deterministic for my taste, but it was a horrible peace. If they wanted reparations they could at least have tried to rebuild Germany’s economy. Or if they wanted to wipe Germany from the map they could have done what the allies did to them in 45. But the idea that they could jeep them forever as a second class power, how silly.
I blame a few things, and not so much the myth of the guilty nation alone. The whole modern idea of total war and unconditional surrender is wrong, morally and strategically. And Wilsonian wrath against monarchy and in favor of ethnic self-determination is stupid.