WI: German diplomats present at the Versailles Conference?

Short and sweet: German diplomats were excluded from the Paris negotiations, leading to the Versailles Treaty effectively being a diktat (or at least being perceived as one).

What if this were not the case, and German diplomats were present at Paris? What might have gone differently? Would the Treaty be seen as more 'fair' or in better faith to Germans?
 
Do they actually have a say in the negotiations? If they can get the Entente to drop the economic limitations and keep the Prussian corridor they could sell it as a true negotiated peace.

Problem is, that after the conditions of the armistice were fulfilled, there was no chance that France would accept that.
 
Probably can happen only if Entente wins the war much earlier.

If Germans are allowed participated to negotiations peace terms wouldn't be so harsh.
 
One of the problems was most German politicians wanted nothing to do with the negotiations realizing their careers would be ruined (there is a reason Germans clutched desperately to the Stabbed in the Back myth unable to accept they were losing). What is needed is a true negotiated peace which requires an earlier end to the war. By 1918-19, the Entente (France in particular) were too radicalized in their desire for payback.
 
What is needed is a true negotiated peace which requires an earlier end to the war. By 1918-19, the Entente (France in particular) were too radicalized in their desire for payback.

And a German Army which was not so destructive with demolitions on the retreat.
 
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