Were any people convicted of war-crimes after First World War and what were their sentences?

Friar Tuck

According to Article 231 of the Treaty 'the Allied and Associated Governments affirm, and Germany accepts, the responsibility of Germany and her allies for causing all the losses and damages to which the Allied and Associated Governments and their nationals have been subjected as a consequence of the war imposed upon them by the aggression of Germany and her allies.' In other words, the whole blame of provoking the First World War was put on Germany. This is historically incorrect and so constituted a great hurt to the German national pride. This 'war-guilt clause' provided the Allied justification for war trials and reparations. At Leipzig, 12 Germans were tried, of whom six were convicted of war-crimes. (The Kaiser was not given a trial, because the Dutch Government refused to pass him to the Allied powers.) In 1921 the Reparations Commission decided that Germany had to pay %A36,600 million in reparations. This figure was considered too large, for the reparations covered not only direct loss and damage as a result of the war but also indirect war expenditure such as allowances paid to families of soldiers, the cost of maintaining Allied occupation in the Rhine and the war loans of the Belgian government. Part of the reparations was to be paid in annual instalments, part in ships, coal and other kinds of goods. Germany clearly paid a heavy price for her defeat. The war-guilt clause and the accompanying clause concerning reparations were clearly made in a spirit of revenge. The German resentment of the Treaty helped the rise of Hitler in the l 930's. http://www.thecorner.org/hists/total/wwresult.htm May 27 03, 10:08 PM