To: wideawake
I wonder what would have happened if the Kaiser had won WW1. No Nazis in Germany would be a good guess. Also possibly no Bolsheviks taking power in Russia?
118 posted on
11/26/2010 9:33:20 PM PST by
Borges
To: Borges
The situation in Russia developed prior to Germany's defeat - it was predicated on an assumption of German victory. I do not see how that would have changed. And a German victory would not have pacified the Freikorps. It would have split Germany into factions: those who supported the negotiated peace favored by the Kaiser and those who would have insisted on regrouping, rearming and crushing France for good. Both France and Germany had strong, popular and well-organized anti-Semitic and proto-fascist movements before WWI. I can't imagine that a tenuous peace negotiated by a technically victorious Germany would have pacified such factions on either side of the border.
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