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On the £6.6 Billion, get a breakdown between cash and natural resources. Also, find the source for the Christmastime sentence, and list the pinprick issues. The $55,000,000,000 reported in the New York Times is a "gold marks" number. This number was misreported, and has to be translated into US currency. The exchange rate at the time was about 4 gold marks to the dollar. Therefore, the US tally was $13.75 Billion (in US currency) as of January 1921. Link: (footnote #8)
The terms of the Treaty of Versailles were a secret to the world until Germany published them in Berlin on 5/7/19.
Egypt asked for its independence 2 days after the peace treaty was signed, per Marlowe, pg. 337
Hitler officially withdrew from The Treaty of Versailles on January 30, 1937, pg. 299 However, his first violation occurred with conscription, announced on March 16, 1935, followed by the remilitarization of the Rhineland on March 7, 1936.