| 单词 | war-guilt clause |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswar-guilt clause war guilt n. the responsibility for having caused a war; esp. German responsibility for having caused the First World War (1914–18), as asserted in Article 231 of the Treaty of Versailles (1919) (often known as the war-guilt clause).Although apparently intended only to establish Germany's legal liability for reparations, Article 231 was widely interpreted in Germany as an admission of guilt and caused widespread public resentment there. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > responsibility for war war guilt1917 1917 Times 30 Aug. 6/1 (headline) War guilt of Germany. 1918 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 2 June 7/1 Prince Lichnowsky..places the war-guilt directly and without equivocation upon the Imperial German government. 1924 Manitowoc (Wisconsin) Herald-News 30 June 11/4 Germans are united in a protest against the ‘war guilt clause’ of the treaty which holds Germany solely responsible for the war. 1986 J. B. Jacobs Socio-Legal Found. Civil-Mil. Relations vii. 159 Vietnam Veterans Against the War sought to make American society accept its war guilt. 2005 D. Redles Hitler's Millennial Reich 19 The infamous war-guilt clause..was another point of national humiliation. 2010 R. C. Doyle Enemy in our Hands viii. 178 The Nazis sought revenge for the Allied-imposed war guilt, which the Germans never accepted. < as lemmas |
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