Germany to complete WWI reparations at last.

[Husar]

From the Allied perspective, Germany should have been broken back up into the states of the Confederation or wholly welcomed back into the world community without penalty.

Wasn't it Otto von Bismarck who said something along the lines of "If you're going to wage war with an enemy you should either make sure that they can save their face or that they won't rise again."?
Well, he was always a bit ahead of the French*.






*and arguably the german governments after him, too