>Not only that, the backbreaking financial penalties placed on Germany crippled their economy so badly that that the German people were ripe for revolt.

I disagree with this. We didn't cause WW2, they did. The German people hadn't been sufficiently convinced that the time had passed for a greater Germany in Europe.

As well, Germany repaid only a small portion of the reparations, not enough to ruin their economy.

"It is sometimes argued that Germany had to inflate its currency to pay the war reparations required under the Treaty of Versailles, but this is only part of the story. Reparations accounted for about one third of the German deficit from 1920 to 1923 (Costantino Bresciani-Turroni, The Economics of Inflation. London: George Allen & Unwin, 1937. p. 93). Nonetheless, the government found reparations a convenient scapegoat."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#The_1920s_German_inflation

Margaret MacMillan debunks the "it was our fault" theory quite successfully in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peacemakers:_The_Paris_Peace_Conference_of_1919_and_Its_Attempt_to_End_War