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How did the Treaty of Versailles change the border between Germany and Belgium?
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Treaty of Versailles
The “Big Four” (left to right): David Lloyd George of Britain, Vittorio Orlando of Italy, Georges Clemenceau of France, and Woodrow Wilson of the United States, the principal architects of the Treaty of Versailles.
The Treaty of Versailles mandated small territorial adjustments along the border between Germany and Belgium. Specifically, the treaty assigned the region of Eupen-Malmédy—which included the districts of Eupen, Malmédy, and Sankt Vith—as well as Prussian Moresnet and Neutral Moresnet, to Belgium.12
These territorial changes were later ratified by a plebiscite in 1920, and Germany formally recognized the new frontier in the 1925 Pact of Locarno.2