. Mediæval and modern history . pensation for the wanton de-struction of French mines inthe territories occupied by theGerman armies. To undo the wrong doneto Denmark by Prussia in1864, such parts of Schleswigwere to be reunited to Denmarkas the inhabitants of theseparts by free and secret voteshould determine. On the East, Germany cededPosen, West Prussia on theleft bank of the Vistula, andparts of Silesia to the newPoland. These cessions weremainly restitutions of landsacquired by Prussia through the greatest international crime inthe records of modern Europe prior to the violation of the ne
. Mediæval and modern history . pensation for the wanton de-struction of French mines inthe territories occupied by theGerman armies. To undo the wrong doneto Denmark by Prussia in1864, such parts of Schleswigwere to be reunited to Denmarkas the inhabitants of theseparts by free and secret voteshould determine. On the East, Germany cededPosen, West Prussia on theleft bank of the Vistula, andparts of Silesia to the newPoland. These cessions weremainly restitutions of landsacquired by Prussia through the greatest international crime inthe records of modern Europe prior to the violation of the neu-trality of Belgium by the Germans in 1914.^ Danzig, the Balticport of old Poland, was made a free city and placed under theprotection of the League of Nations. Germany was further required by the terms of the treaty torecognize the full sovereignty of restored Belgium and the inde-pendence of German Austria and of the new states of Czecho-slovakia and Poland, and to renounce all rights and privileges in 1 See sects. 467, © Harris & Ewinu Fig. 118. President WooDROWWilson. (From a photograph) § 729] THE TREATY OF VERSAILLES 669 her African colonies and other possessions outside of Europe infavor of the collective or individual allied and associated powers.^ The provisions of the treaty in regard to the German army,navy, and armament factories were of such a nature as to renderGermany incapable of launching another war of aggression. Theyrequired that the army be reduced to one hundred thousand men ;that all factories for the manufac-ture of war munitions (save a fewspecifically excepted) should beclosed; that the manufacture ofpoisonous gases should cease; thatall military schools should be abol-ished; that no armed forces bemaintained in a prescribed zoneeast of the Rhine; that all fortifi-cations and military establishmentson the island of Helgoland, theGerman Gibraltar, be destroyedunder the supervision of theAllies by German labor and atGermanys expense. In respec
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