@OmSigDAVID,
Quote:The available choices were to energeticly enforce it,
or to neglect it, as thay DID, permitting the 3rd Reich to re-arm for vengeance.
Sorry you could not enforce it on a country with double the population of France at the time for any prolong period of time, all you could do is to increase the hates and made the payback even worst when it came.
It would be as if the Confederate States had won the US civil war with the aid of the direct involvements of the Europeans powers and had placed the same harsh peace terms on the North as was placed on Germany creating a generation who only dream is of revenge against the South.
No matter how hard the Southern states try to enforce the terms and keep the far more powerful North disarm sooner or later they would find ways to rearm and march South looking for revenge.
France knew they had a tiger by the tail that is why they pour so must resources into building the Maginot line.