Agreed. Also the demand for reparations by the French sundered the fragile economy of post war Germany. The industrial heartland of Germany was actually occupied by French and British troops 1928/9. This was to enforce reparations.
I would like to mention in support of your statement, of the Allied blockade. My grandfather in the Royal East Kent Regt. spent over three years 1915/18,as a German prisoner of war. His health was damaged through inadequate feeding. I learned the German population starved also and there was massive suffering. I have no hard feelings now, it was the blockade of Germany by the Royal Navy.
America did not make the same awful mistake after WW2. The war criminals were dealt with and the civilian population were helped recover by massive aid.
Many people are not aware that Germany placed huge reparation demands upon France at the end of the Franco-Prussian War in 1871, so I can understand the French desire for "pay back" particularly after losing 1.4 million soldiers in WW I, but those demands obviously helped cause WWII.
" I learned the German population starved also and there was massive suffering."
I recently read that the German civilians were trying to survive on fewer than a 1,000 calories per day for a very long time in WW I.