>> He understood the consequences of punishing Germany too severely and was pressing for a more just settlement.
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>While I agree it was short sighted to punish Germany in a financial sense, I still disagree that the western allies are to blame for the rise of Germany. The rise of Germany in WWII had more to do with:
>- Germany's sense of victimhood
>- Germany's desire for a greater Geman state
>- Germany's mistunderstanding of how WWI ended. They thought it was a stalemate, but it was a German defeat
I guess it doesn't help when we call 11/11 "Armistice Day" rather than "Victory Day", and it WAS an armistice signed in that train carriage, wasn't it?
>- a charismatic, sociopathic, racist leader
You forgot:
- belicose nature
- feeling of teutonic superiority
- Whoever said that women are the weaker sex never tried to wrest the bedclothes off one in the middle of the night
- Worry is the interest you pay, in advance, for a loan that you may never need to take out.
