Sorry, but that's a misreading of history.
Germany's problem after the First World War was, they didn't feeeeeeel defeated, had never been invaded and were offered by Southerner US President Wilson "peace without victory'.
And "peace without victory" was perfect for Germans, just what they needed -- a twenty year break from war, then next time they'd show those verdammt Allies how to do it!
And plenty of Allied officials understood just what Germans intended in 1918, including our Army commander, Gen. Pershing, who wanted to march across Germany into Berlin to show the Germans who really won their war.
Another who understood was a young Under-Secretary of the Navy, in charge of naval codes & communications, a handsome fellow named... ah, yes, Franklin Roosevelt.
But Wilson's "peace without victory" prevailed until the Allies at Versailles began demanding reparations from Germany, and Wilson was too weak to stand his ground.
So yes, Germans felt "betrayed" & "stabbed in the back", but only because Wilson had promised them better and then, like any Democrat failed to deliver.
In fact, Germany in 1919 was treated certainly no worse than Germans treated countries they defeated, notably Belgium and Russia.
So the Allies in the Second World War intended not to repeat the mistakes of the First and instead could look back to the US Civil War where Union imposed costs on civilians (i.e., Sherman's march upgraded to 2.0 version became allied bombing) demanded Unconditional Surrender, militarily occupied the country for years afterwards, rooted out the root causes of the war -- slavery in one case, Nazism in the other -- and then welcomed the defeated people back into the family of states/nations.
But for those who just can't let go of hysterical historical hyperbole, let's also point out that Second World War Germany was, in fact, treated orders of magnitude more severely than were Confederates.
CondoleezzaProtege: "The Nazis lost WWII. And to this day there are Neo-Nazis who wave or tatoo Confederate flags on themselves in the South and around the world."
No pro-Confederate on these threads accepts any comparison of Confederates to Nazis -- das ist verboten!!
So I am here only comparing Union Civil War actions to those of World War Allies.
The First World War taught us how not to do it, the Civil War taught Allies basics in how to do it.
I would never compare Confederates to Nazis. That’s silly and insulting to America.
Wilson was President of Princeton. Some sort of Liberal idiocy from the Northeast apparently rubbed off on him to turn him into a stark raving lunatic Liberal fool.