I really hope you guys are not going to state the Germans did not start World War II in Europe in 1939?No, but Germans never gave Hitler a majority of votes in a free election. And he abandoned the constitution by a parliament vote, saying that the government and not the parliament may make laws.
And btw, not only Germans expected to win, each nation never thought of the idea to lose. And actually, before the US joined the war on the entente´s side, it looked really bad for them.
Germans didn´t learn the lesson from WW1"
What was the lesson? The treaty of Versailles was unjust, and led to the hatred against the West in Germany. One can say that after WW2, the Germans AND the allies learned their lesson - they chose to integrate the defeated in the western community (if only to fight/stop the Soviets).
"The treaty of Versailles was unjust, and led to the hatred against the West in Germany."
You can keep repeating this, but you won't convince anyone who has ever bothered to study the subject.
Maybe you should read up on the treaty the German imposed upon the defeated Russians just a couple of years before:
Treaty of Brest-Litovsk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Brest-Litovsk
It makes the Versailles Treaty look like a love note.
Moreover, the Versailles Treaty was immediately and constantly ameliorated -- until by the 1920s the US was pumping in massive amounts of foreign aid.
And as to the larger point of German militarism, WWI was at the time only the latest in a near constant succession of Germany's wars motivated by their desire to gain hegemony in on the Continent.
Read a book, why don't you?
"The treaty of Versailles was unjust..""It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versailles Treaty by peaceful means, which was provided for in that very treaty."
Hans Frank
Should the Allies have allowed Germany, the Hapsburg Empire and the Ottomans Muslim empire to retain their overseas colonies?
Should the Allies have simply allowed the Germans & other Central Powers to sign the surrender documents without any penalties what-so-ever?
Maybe the Allied forces could have rewarded Germany for her usage of poison gas, after all it was only practice for the ovens of the Shoah....the SS state's, Murder Inc.
The German army was the first to give serious study to the development of chemical weapons and the first to use it on a large scale.
Casualties From Gas - The Numbers
| Country |
Total Casualties |
Death |
| Austria-Hungary |
100,000 |
3,000 |
| British Empire |
188,706 |
8,109 |
| France |
190,000 |
8,000 |
| Germany |
200,000 |
9,000 |
| Italy |
60,000 |
4,627 |
| Russia |
419,340 |
56,000 |
| USA |
72,807 |
1,462 |
| Others |
10,000 |
1,000 |
Austrian riflemen on the march in Poland WWI
Twenty years later, Germans invading Poland.
,,Der große deutsche Feldzug gegen Polen’’ (The Great German Battle Against Poland)
"A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased."
Hans Frank
In the long run is a united Germany something the world needs to be concerned with?