The WWI Imperial Germans were not Nazis, but they weren’t angels either.
They weren’t guilty of starting WWI either. The United States should have made things clear regarding neutrality and stuck to it ~
“The WWI Imperial Germans were not Nazis, but they weren’t angels either.”
In my opinion, the only decent nation in WWI was the USA. We were duped, but we were trying to do right, and sought no national gains or revenge.
Oh that’s very true, however, the war is always cast as making the “world safe for democracy”, stopping the “German Empire”, and we are told of endless German atrocities in WWI.
But at the same time, Germans had universal male suffrage by 1871 in federal elections,,, most British Soldiers could not vote due to age and not owning property. And for the British, Belgian, and French Empires to whine about the German empire borders on the silly,,, both in size and violence visited on the occupied colonial possessions. And British and French atrocities are utterly equal if not worse.
The British had invented concentration camps 20 years earler,,, the Belgians mass murdered millions at about the same time.
Thank God our soldiers were not simply fed into the British Army as replacements as the British all but demanded. They would have watefully used them even more freely than their own.
But WWI is an amazing topic. The whole European system was rotten,, and i believe America has always suffered from the European garbage wars. They dragged us in, and we had to become incredibly strong military to win, and to finally stop their crap and create peace for them.
And now a peaceful Europe, which was literally created by our strength, turns and criticizes our military strength.
And neither were the Brits, French, Russians, Austrians or Turks. They were all screwed up with the monarchies, empires, and petty schemes.
WWI was a monument to arrogance and ignorance. A truly tragic war that didn't have to happen. It is also a pitty that the US ever got involved.
COL. BILL LIND ACTUALLY GIVES A VERY SOLID ARGUMENT THAT WE FOUGHT ON THE WRONG SIDE IN WW ONE. I HEARTILY AGREE