The historical consensus is that responsibility or guilt for the war was not attached to the article, but that the clause was a prerequisite to allow a legal basis to be laid out for the reparation payments that were to be made.
The historical consensus is that responsibility or guilt for the war was not attached to the article, but that the clause was a prerequisite to allow a legal basis to be laid out for the reparation payments. These reparation payments were to be made.