Why was Germany blamed for World War 1 in the Versailles Treaty?
In the interwar period it was common in Germany to speak of the ‘war guilt clause’ as if it were the foundation of the entire treaty and as if had been formulated in order to humiliate Germany and turn it into a pariah. There’s no evidence for this, and high number of the clause (#231 – out of 440) speaks against this. The aim was money and more money.
