German weapon restrictions for infantry as specified in the Treaty of Versailles

Along with giving detailed restrictions in regards to the amount of personnel allowed in the German military, the Treaty of Versailles also laid out the exact number of weapons and rounds allowed per unit in the German army. The most commonly used weapons were rifles, of which each division was allocated 12,000 guns, with 400 rounds each (a total of 11,240 men was allowed per division). Following this, a much smaller number of machine guns and heavy weapons was allowed per division, although their ammunition allowance per weapon was usually much higher than that of the rifle, with all machine guns allocated 8,000 rounds each. If we look at the total for the entire army the highest number of units and ammunition was allocated to rifles, with 84,000 individual guns and 33.6 million rounds.