Nobody does authoritarian like the Germans. Imagine the 20th Century without Germans.
Once the Germans were all warlike and mean
But that couldn’t happen again
We taught them a lesson in 1918
And they’ve hardly bothered us since then
-Tom Lehrer
If it wasn’t the Germans, it would have been the French, or Italians, or Russians. The USA is going down the same road…
Interesting thought. Maybe we would have seen wars on a scale just as devastating.
Genocide too, surely. There were quite a lot of them in history, unfortunately.