How have historians assessed the Treaty of Versailles?
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German historian Gerhard Weinberg takes the view that the treaty was actually generous to Germany, in that they remained largely free of post-War occupation and were allowed to retain their system of government.
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British historian Correlli Barnett says that the terms of the Treaty of Versailles were nowhere near as harsh as the terms of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk that Germany imposed on Russia in 1918.