Chagos
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In the combobulated logic of many Germans the loss of territory that was "ceded" to the new republic (Poland) as a result of the 1918 defeat, was a package in the overall parcel of reasons for WW2.Yes. And it had nothing to do with WW2.........................
They were essentially the modern day Spartans - the Nazis. The Spartans would determine whether or not a newborn infant was racially pure or not, and if it was not - for example, if it had any form of abnormalities (underweight, deformities, sickly, etc) it would be cast off a mountain to die.
I have a twisted, self-loathing sort-of respect for the Nazis and Hitler. He was unequivocally a strong leader and a good head-of-state, and the Nazis were systematic and damn-near mathematically-methodical in their controlled, directed man-made attempt at rendering entire demographics, cultures and gene-pools of people extinct.
Well, by now historians have come to address the greater complexities of everything that led to WW1.There was going to be a second war no matter what. And yes, the Germans started WW1.
Well, by now historians have come to address the greater complexities of everything that led to WW1.
No doubt Germany's role was critical to the beginning of that war but putting the whole responsibility at the Kaiser's doorstep would be an oversimplification.
That's long since been cleared up, Hitler was not Jewish in the sense of any bloodline.They were something alright. The world would be a much uglier place though if they had won. Ironic to me is that Hitler himself was no Aryan, and quite possibly a fraction Jewish.
Nah. It was the Germans.
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Fritz Fisher "Germany's War Aims in the First World War" dwells on the tremendous amount of material collected primarily from the archives of the Central powers ...
Germany got what they deserved at Versailles. They started WW1, they paid the price.
What in the ****? Serbians assassinated Franz Ferdinand, not Germany... what on Earth are you smoking?
Actually, they got far worse than what the deserved. It'd be like if you totaled your Prius, and the insurance company decided to up your premium to $5,000 a month. The forced "deal" they gave Germany caused widespread poverty and hyper-inflation in Germany.
That deals with ambitions and one can speculate that had a war not started in 1914, it might well have happened later.Nah. It was the Germans.
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Fritz Fisher "Germany's War Aims in the First World War" dwells on the tremendous amount of material collected primarily from the archives of the Central powers ...
That deals with ambitions and one can speculate that had a war not started in 1914, it might well have happened later.
My point is that everybody involved was incapable of foreseeing the consequences and thus stumbled from rampant bravado into the subsequent catastrophe. There are plenty of accounts of especially the Kaiser and the Czar, seeing where the general bluffing was leading, having tried to stop at the last moment but the politicos edging them on.
France's Poincaré was a big pusher for war.
The Germans wanted the war, and saw the assassination as an opportunity.
The Germans wanted the war, and saw the assassination as an opportunity.
That is not the same as actually starting it.
There would be no war if the Serbians had not assassinated Franz Ferdinand, that is simply a fact, one you cannot challenge.
I'm not persuaded either way.Yes. An attempt to revise Fischer. I'm not persuaded.
I'm not persuaded either way.
What also never persuades me completely is the history of victors. The truth, as so often, is something from everything.
What I'm pretty certain of is that if WW2 had not happened in all its foulness from the German side, a less frenzied look at the roles that all participants played in not preventing WW1 would long since have been easier.
And less frenzied in wishing to apply simplification on to complexites.
Having brought mass death and destruction on Europe, the Germans deserved every bit of that.
Because England, France and Russia didn't do any fighting. It was all Germany's fault.
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Great Britain, France and Russia defended themselves against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Had the Germans not wanted war there would have been no war.
Frankly, that's not true. England only joined the war after the Germans pushed through Belgium. Russia and France had been trying to keep the Germans from unifying for years.
The Serbian assassination would not have led to war had the Germans not seized the opportunity.
Great Britain, France and Russia defended themselves against Germany and Austria-Hungary. Had the Germans not wanted war there would have been no war.
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