Tratatul de la Versailles – viziune germană asupra acestuia
The German Perception over the Treaty of Versailles

Summary/Abstract: The paper highlights some important aspects of the negotiation and conclusion of the Peace Treaty of Versailles (1919) between the Allied Powers and the representatives of the German Reich. Unlike previous peace treaties, where winners and losers sat down at the table to create a new order together, without moralizing sentences, the Treaty of Versailles, considered by many personalities a Dictate, had a different character, with the particularity that the negotiations took place only among the representatives of the winning states, their results being presented to the German Reich, who did not reconcile with the status of “guilty of war”. Analysing the impact of the Treaty of Versailles on the post­-World War I period, the author asks the question if it meant “a mortgage for the future”. It is true that, together with many other factors, the treaty can be held responsible for the rise of national­-socialism and the failure of the Weimar Republic, but, as in the case of the outbreak of the Second World War, there was nothing “pre-programmed”, as a result of the decisions taken by the Nazi leadership after 1933. Concluding, it can be considered that the World Order set up in Versailles was a “mortgage for the future”, which seems more obvious today than decades ago, when the order of the world seemed to work regardless of all the problems.

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