I think the French pushed Germany to the brink and made a leader like Hitler possible. (re: Treaty of Versailles)
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...)