the billions but in the hundreds of millions of Reichsmarks"; for example, the Weimar Republic's 1931 program of 480 million Reichsmarks over five years compared to the Nazi Government's 1933 plan to spend 4.4 billion Reichsmarks per year. P. M. H. Bell argued that the British Government was aware of later Weimar rearming, and lent public respectability to the German efforts by not opposing them, an opinion shared by Churchill. Norman Davies wrote that "a curious oversight" of the military restrictions were that they "did not include rockets in its list of prohibited weapons", which provided Wernher von Braun an area to research within eventually resulting in "his break [that] came in 1943" leading to the development of the V-2 rocket. Rise of the Nazis The Treaty created much resentment in Germany, which was exploited by Adolf Hitler in his rise to power at the helm of Nazi Germany. Central to this was belief in the stab-in-the-back myth, which held that the German army had not lost the war and had been betrayed by the Weimar Republic, who negotiated an unnecessary surrender. The Great Depression exacerbated the issue and led to a collapse of the German economy. Though the treaty may not have caused the crash, it was a convenient scapegoat. Germans viewed the treaty as a humiliation and eagerly listened to Hitler's oratory which blamed the treaty for Germany's ills. Hitler promised to reverse the depredations of the Allied powers and recover Germany's lost territory and pride, which has led to the treaty being cited as a cause of World War II. See also Aftermath of World War I Little Treaty of Versailles Minority Treaties Septemberprogramm Notes Footnotes Citations Sources {{Cite book| title = Verhandlung der verfassungsgebenden Nationalversammlung: Stenographische Berichte und Drucksachen | publisher = German National Assembly | year = 1919 | volume = 24 | pages = 631–635 | ref = }} Further reading Published in the US as Memoirs of the Peace Conference Also published as Historiography and memory External links Documents relating to the Treaty from the Parliamentary Collections Treaty of Versailles Resource Guide from the Library of Congress Photographs of the document The consequences of the Treaty of Versailles for today's world Text of Protest by Germany and Acceptance of Fair Peace Treaty My 1919 – A film from the Chinese point of view, the only country that did not sign the treaty "Versailles