There is no doubt that Germany was oppressed by the terms in that treaty. Germany in WWI was not evil, and was not run by a Hitler. It was a large and powerful empire defending it's ally, Austria-Hungary (who were the real bad-guys, although that's still a term to use loosely). The fact that Germany was forced to take all the blame for the war and was driven into poverty is nothing short of oppression.
I agree that the clausul forcing Germany to take full blame for the war was not a very good one and is also generally seen as a bad one.

However, compare the treaty at Brest-Litovsk with the treaty of Versailles and you will see that Germany were not very nice and forgiving at the diplomatic table either. What would the consequenses have been for France and Benelux had Germany won? I doubt strongly those countries would emerge as untouched as Germany did.

Would you say, after having seen your countrys youth bleed to death, to your enemy, "Allright lets forget the whole thing and feel free to have as big an army as you like and by all means keep the territories you have taken from us and others earlier."

There was no foreign occaption forces in Germany after the war (with I think a short time exeption when France entered a geographically limited area), territory losses were very small imo and so on. So oppression is a strong word and a word loaded with value that has no place in this kind of report imo. You could say that: "many think Germany was oppressed", or you can say: "I think Germany was oppressed" or you can say many think Germany was dealt with very harsh in the peace and so on. But you can not say that Germany WAS oppressed in a way that makes it sound like a fact that everybody agrees on without any hesitation.

In fact it can be argued that the peace was not harsh enough. Germany was left in such a state that it, as proven, could again develop into power. A thing Austria for instance could not. If Germany had been cripled and for instance a Rhineland state had been created (the french wanted it) perhaps there had been no wwII.

Kalle