Question

What economic problems were not solved with the Versailles Treaty?

Answer 1

waste

Answer 2

In a very short time, therefore, Germany will not be in a position to give bread and work to her numerous millions of inhabitants, who are prevented from earning their livelihood by navigation and trade. "We do not know, and indeed we doubt," the [German Economic Commission] report concludes, "whether the delegates of the allied and associated powers realise the inevitable consequences that will take place if Germany, an industrial state, very thickly populated, closely bound up with the economic system of the world, and under the necessity of importing enormous quantities of raw material and foodstuffs, suddenly finds herself pushed back to the phase of her development that corresponds to her economic condition and the numbers of her population as they were half a century ago. Those who sign this treaty will sign the death sentence of many millions of German men, women and children." I know of no adequate answer to these words.