“...the disgraceful attachment on whatever wealth that Germany had that led to the rise of Hitler and WWII.”
Still mouthing Third Reich Propaganda, it appears.
Pretty dim, fragmented understanding of the historical record: Germans precipitate two wars of aggression inside 50 years, yet nearly three quarters of a century after their second defeat, they still play the victims. And find apologists, among the descendants of their former adversaries.
Victor Davis Hanson has written that Germany was beaten in 1918, but was not made to feel that it lost, so it was itching for a rematch less than one generation later.
It doesn’t take much effort to make the case that American dithering was a major factor in prolonging WWI and a major cause of WWII. Early intervention on the Allied side would have defeated Imperial Germany in the Great War, and a solid stance, shoulder to shoulder with the French and the Brits, would have forced the Third Reich to back down when it reoccupied the Rhineland in the 1930s.
Not as nearly as captivating, though, as staying home, while others bled and died, staying safe and comfy and pristine, debating the whichness of the wherefore, and winnowing through the finest of moral distinctions.
All chances are now irretrievably behind us, of course. But it does prompt one to wonder how things would have turned out, if all the “keep-us-out-of-war” types, and later the America Firsters, had been rounded up and shot for treason.
Don’t forget the Franco-Prussian War. Three times in less than 70 years, Germans plunged Europe into war.