Great Britain and Empire947,000 France1,360,000 Germany1,800,000
Italy615,000 Some of the figures for soldiers killed in action in
the First World War Slide 2 Slide 3 Europe after the Treaties of
Versailles and St Germain, 1919 Slide 4 The Treaty of Versailles
The treaty which Germany was forced to sign at the end of the First
World War in 1919 contained several terms which many Germans found
humiliating: - Germany was to have an army no bigger than 100,000
men. - The Germans were not allowed to have any tanks, submarines
or military aircraft in the armed forces. - Germany lost 13 per
cent of her territory to other countries. - Germany had to pay 6000
million in gold to Britain and France as compensation for starting
the war. Slide 5 More than anything I hated to see war crippled men
standing in the gutter selling matches. We had been promised a land
fit for heroes; it took a hero to live in it. Id never fight for my
country again. Private W.A. Turner quoted in M. Middlebrook, The
First Day on the Somme, 1971 Slide 6 Why cannot our children be
taught that the seeds of the Second World War were well and truly
sown in that Treaty and although there was a twenty year period of
germination the bloody harvest of the Second World War was
inevitable? Why not explain that the vengeful [punishing] Treaty of
Versailles provided very fertile ground for the madman Hitler to
brainwash the German people with his warlike Nazi philosophy...?
W.H.A. Groom, Poor Bloody Infantry Slide 7 Slide 8 An unemployed
disabled ex-serviceman in 1921 Slide 9 Slide 10 A peace
demonstration in Britain in the 1930s
