>The penalties and humiliation of the Treaty of Versailles was a significant initiator for WWII, and a major reason why somebody like Hitler rose to power in the first place.

The penalites in the treaty were light compared to previous wars. The rise of Hitler had to do more with the myth amoungst germanic people that they did not lose WWI, but that it was a stalemate, and that they were betrayed by their own leaders during the treaty negotiations.