Britain should have made a deal with the Germans, the world would have been better off. But Britain and France couldn’t deal with a new kid being on the block.
So what if France lost. But consider, no Hitler, no Bolsheviks. And we would have stayed out of it, as well.
Germany had annexed Alscace-Lorraine in 1870 and the kaiser insisted in building a Navy at least as large as the Royal navy despite the Royal navy having to be spread out all over the world wheras Germany could afford to concentrate it in the north sea.
Germany was not a reasonable partner, it was a threat that had to be kept in its box.
Contrary to popular belief this was a neccessary war on the Entente’s part because if Germany had been allowed to crush Russia and France its power would have been unassailable.
Yes, I am beginning to question what we learned in Canadian history. Britain was afraid or jealous of Germany’s dreadnought program so wanted to put Germany in its place.
Yes, and I have no clue why on earth the Entente powers rejected every single peace proposal, first by the Pope in 1915 and later by the Central Powers.
At least I’m happy that many of the alleged German atrocities in Belgium were figments of the British propaganda machine.
Lord Bryce, afaik, avowed after the cessation of hostilities, that his (in)famous “Bryce report” was, for the most part, a propaganda piece.
In 1924 Prime Minister Lloyd George acted very honorably, when he, in a speech in Parliament, apologized to the German nation for the dehumanizing, hateful anti-German propaganda from the Great War.
That, Ladies and Gentlemen, might be one of the reasons why the reports from the extermination camps in WW 2 were, at first, met with incredulity in the West.