The unfair treatment of the German people and their government under the Treaty of Versailles was one of many examples of the sins of the father being taken upon the son. The Second Reich was under Hohenzollern rule, from the unification of Germany to the abdication of Kaiser Wilhelm II in 1919. However, after Germany lost World War I, the kaiser fled the country and Germany was transitioned to its first democracy, the Weimar Republic. The problem with the Treaty was that it placed heavy punishments on the new, fragile democracy, for war crimes committed by the preceding government. In the Treaty of Versailles, the Allies demanded that “The German military forces shall be demobilized” and that Germany accept the responsibility “for causing
