High ranges of conscription into the army threatened to deprive the armaments trade of staff, with the result that by 1916 the German authorities started exempting massive numbers of otherwise eligible males from navy service so they might remain as workers. Instead, Germany was defeated, and the brand new German Weimar government was bound by the Treaty of Versailles, which was designed to ensure that Germany may never wage conflict on its neighbours again. A name by some for a authorities mod...