<P> During the formulation of the treaty , the British wanted Germany to abolish conscription and be allowed to maintain volunteer Army . The French wanted Germany to maintain a conscript army of up to 200,000 men in order to justify their own maintenance of a similar force . Thus the treaty 's allowance of 100,000 volunteers was a compromise between the British and French positions . Germany , on the other hand , saw the terms as leaving them defenseless against any potential enemy . Bernadotte Everly Schmitt wrote that `` there is no reason to believe that the Allied governments were insincere when they stated at the beginning of Part V of the Treaty ... that in order to facilitate a general reduction of the armament of all nations , Germany was to be required to disarm first . '' A lack of American ratification of the treaty or joining the League of Nations left France unwilling to disarm , which resulted in a German unwillingness to rearm . Schmitt argued `` had the four Allies remained united , they could have forced Germany really to disarm , and the German will and capacity to resist other provisions of the treaty would have correspondingly diminished . '' Max Hantke and Mark Spoerer wrote `` military and economic historians ( have ) found that the German military only insignificantly exceeded the limits '' of the treaty prior to 1933 . Adam Tooze concurred , and wrote `` To put this in perspective , annual military spending by the Weimar Republic was counted not in 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 latter Weimar rearming , and lent public respectability to the German efforts by not opposing them . 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 . </P>
<P> During the formulation of the treaty , the British wanted Germany to abolish conscription and be allowed to maintain volunteer Army . The French wanted Germany to maintain a conscript army of up to 200,000 men in order to justify their own maintenance of a similar force . Thus the treaty 's allowance of 100,000 volunteers was a compromise between the British and French positions . Germany , on the other hand , saw the terms as leaving them defenseless against any potential enemy . Bernadotte Everly Schmitt wrote that `` there is no reason to believe that the Allied governments were insincere when they stated at the beginning of Part V of the Treaty ... that in order to facilitate a general reduction of the armament of all nations , Germany was to be required to disarm first . '' A lack of American ratification of the treaty or joining the League of Nations left France unwilling to disarm , which resulted in a German unwillingness to rearm . Schmitt argued `` had the four Allies remained united , they could have forced Germany really to disarm , and the German will and capacity to resist other provisions of the treaty would have correspondingly diminished . '' Max Hantke and Mark Spoerer wrote `` military and economic historians ( have ) found that the German military only insignificantly exceeded the limits '' of the treaty prior to 1933 . Adam Tooze concurred , and wrote `` To put this in perspective , annual military spending by the Weimar Republic was counted not in 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 latter Weimar rearming , and lent public respectability to the German efforts by not opposing them . 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 . </P>
according the treaty of versailles germany did not have to
according the treaty of versailles germany did not have to
really to disarm
really to disarm