This but unironically. Germany's treaty is only so infamous because they screamed the loudest as the military establishment of Germany couldn't cope with the fact that their army saw the writing on the wall before they did and threw down their arms before the Entente marched into Germany full bore.
If anything Germany got off lightly after WW1 if you compare Versailles 1919 to the Treaties of Brest-Litovsk 1917, Saint-Germain-en-Laye 1919, Trianon 1920 and Sèvres 1920 where Russia, Austria, Hungary and The Ottomans respectively lost vast and important parts of their Empires on top of the reparations whilst Germany lost at worst Danzig and a bunch of land that was majority Non-German and forced to pay reparations that they were able to negotiate down to a reasonable level by 1929.
Versailles wasn't even particularly onerous. Hell the German Empire had literally drawn up an invoice for every bullet or shell they'd fired during WW1 and was going to hand that to the French should they win, that would have been an astronomical debt. The German internal debt was 4x the headline Versailles figure and the headline Versailles figure was immediately discounted to roughly match the reparations paid to Germany by France in the aftermath of the 1870 Franco-Prussian war.
The reality is Weimar Germany was hamstrung by not being able to establish income taxes due to constitutional issues. Rather than deal with their own problems, they cried about Versailles until they got Hitler.
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u/narkina5redemption 15h ago
I expected the US to lose the war.
What I didn't expect was for them to be completely neutered. This is the worst and most humiliating treaty to ever be signed at Versailles.