war-guilt

German war-guilt clause, embodied in Article 231 of the Versailles Treaty; his failure to support German missionaries; and even his friendship with President Wilson.

Pursuit of an 'Unparalleled Opportunity': The American YMCA and Prisoner of War Diplomacy among the Central Power Nations during World War I 2008

I am not specially raising the question of war-guilt, though I have never changed my view of it; for indeed this particular generalisation was true in a lesser degree of the Allies also.

G.K.'s Weekly - The Distributist Schoolmaster 2007

Immediately after 1919 the consequences came in a flood — the host of memoirs from political and military leaders, the controversies over the question of “war-guilt,” and the interest of governments in the production of the record.

HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

We made an approach to that new type of peace in 1919, but we tried it with only the old type of international machinery, when the Treaty of Versailles had its war-guilt clause and its clause declaring Germany unfit for colonial trusteeship.

Essentials of the Coming Peace 1942