ABSTRACT
War losses Under the Versailles Peace Treaty Germany lost 10 per cent of her population and 13.5 per cent of her pre-war territory. She lost her colonies, Upper Silesia, Alsace-Lorraine, the Saar district, most of Posen and part of West Prussia, Schleswig, Danzig, the Baltic part of Memel, the Western frontier districts of Eupen and Malmédy and a small area near Troppau among others. A particular problem was caused by those industries which had earlier formed integrated units, especially Upper Silesia, and by the separation of the Ruhr coal from the rich iron ore deposits of Lorraine. From now on Germany depended to an even greater extent on foodstuffs and raw material imports, because the regions lost were particularly rich in agricultural and industrial resources. Germany lost 15 per cent of her arable land and 75 per cent of her iron ore deposits. Her pig iron production capacity was reduced by 44 per cent, that of steel by 38 per cent and that of coal by 26 per cent.1
