Germany.
The right to vote will belong to all inhabitants of over 20 years
resident therein at the time of the signature.
Section 4. German Austria--Germany recognizes the total independence
of German Austria in the boundaries traced.
Germany recognizes the entire independence of the Czecho-Slovak state.
The five allied and associated powers will draw up regulations assuring
East Prussia full and equitable access to and use of the Vistula.
Danzig--Danzig and the district immediately about it is to be
constituted into the free city of Danzig under the guaranty of the
league of nations.
Denmark--The frontier between Germany and Denmark will be fixed by
the self-determination of the population.
The fortifications, military establishments and harbors of the islands
of Helgoland and Dune are to be destroyed under the supervision of the
allies by German labor and at Germany's expense. They may not be
reconstructed, nor any similar fortifications built in the future.
Russia--Germany agrees to respect as permanent and inalienable the
independence of all territories which were part of the former Russian
empire, to accept abrogation of the Brest-Litovsk and other treaties
entered into with the Maximalist government of Russia, to recognize the
full force of all treaties entered into by the allied and associated
powers with states which were a part of the former Russian empire, and
to recognize the frontiers as determined therein. The allied and
associated powers formally reserve the right of Russia to obtain
restitution and reparation of the principles of the present treaty.
SECTION 5. German Rights Outside of Europe--Outside Europe, Germany
renounces all rights, title and privileges as to her own or her allied
territories, to all the allied and associated powers.
German Colonies--Germany renounces in favor of the allied and
associated powers her overseas possessions with all rights and titles
therein. All movable and immovable property belonging to the German
empire or to any German state shall pass to the government exercising
authority therein. Germany undertakes to pay reparation for damage
suffered by French nationals in the Kameruns or its frontier zone
through the acts of German civil and military authorities and of
individual Germans from January 1, 1900, to August 1, 1914.
China--Germany renounces in favor of China all privileges and
indemnities resulting from the Boxer protocol of 1901, and all
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