Why was Germany's response to the Treaty of Versailles so negative when it had imposed upon Russia the humiliating Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in 1918? From *The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich* by William L. Shirer, the Brest-Litovsk peace treaty;

&gt;deprived Russia of a territory nearly as large as Austria-Hungary and Turkey combined, with 56,000,000 inhabitants, or 32 percent of her whole population; a third of her railway mileage, 73 percent of her total iron ore, 89 percent of her total coal production; and more than 5,000 factories and industrial plants. Moreover, Russia was obliged to pay Germany an indemnity of six billion marks.