[henkster]

I agree that Versailles was a very bad treaty. But your argument too much “America had it coming to it on 9/11” ring to it. I know it’s not what you meant, but I’m always careful about blaming the French for Hitler. I prefer to blame Hitler for Hitler. And there were a lot of real and piss-ant wanna-be Hitlers around back then (Stalin, Mao, Mussolini, Antonescu, Horthy, Laval, Hirohito, Chaing, etc...)

[Blake#1]

Nov.11, 1918 Armistice Day. No winners or losers, just stop fighting. Then the French and British broke their word and treated Germany as the loser (so did the USofA). They took land and money from the “loser”. It didn’t take much to get the Germans (or any country) ripe for revenge. Lying and betrayal brought on the National Socialist.

[Niteranger68]

I agree that Versailles was a very bad treaty. But your argument too much “America had it coming to it on 9/11” ring to it. I know it’s not what you meant, but I’m always careful about blaming the French for Hitler. I prefer to blame Hitler for Hitler. And there were a lot of real and piss-ant wanna-be Hitlers around back then (Stalin, Mao, Mussolini, Antonescu, Horthy, Laval, Hirohito, Chaing, etc...)

I heap most of the blame for Hitler on the German population. He was elected on a open platform of ending democracy. But the ToV was the Chinese water torture that was bound to back Germany in a corner eventually. Even the British knew the German people would soon consider all hope lost and do something irrational.