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When the Allies refused to enforce the conditions of the 1918 Armistice and allowed Germany to rebuild its strength, the die was cast for another world war.

Bingo! All this leftie crap about Germany being too harshly punished after the World War 1 is a bunch of garbage. I took a course about World War 1 in college, and I found out that the architects of the peace plan (especially France) said that Germany was not being punished enough and that the Treaty of Versailles was a peace plan that would last just 20 years.

Sorry, both of you are wrong.
Many people here believe, that the Treaty of Versailles was the root of 01/30/1933. The Treaty was too brutal for the weak economy in Germany. Hitler was mostly elected by unemployed, workers, simple people. Eisenhower and Marshal have learned from that Treaty, they wanted a Germany which became voluntary a friend of the Allies - and they got it. The day the US bombers threw food on Berlin was the day the US has won a new ally.

Not oppressing, but helping the defeated enemy was the right way - and this is what we do today in Yugoslavia, Afghanistan and what we will do in Iraq. Showing strength until the enemy is weak - and then rebuild it with your ideas but make sure that the defeated accept it.

The Versailles Treaty was the worst peace treaty in worlds history. Germany lost one third of its territory (even with German ethnic majority), it had to pay 5 billions Goldmark p.a. until 1989 (70 years, the paying stopped in the 20´s), it had to deliver coal to France and to give up the Saar area for 15 years ... to name the important facts of that "treaty".

Michael

P.S.: WWII started in 1937 in the South-Pacific-region.

All this leftie crap about Germany being too harshly punished after the World War 1 is a bunch of garbage

Leftie crap? My friend, it was the Lefties--starting with the socialist President of the United States--who crafted the extortionary terms of Versailles. If anything, the Lefties feel we didn't go far enough in punishing Germany.

And the Right was the Great Loser in the Great War. As a result of Wilson's intransigence, naivete, and callousness, Christendom itself was destroyed, and the two great Leftist mass murdering movements of the 20th century (Nazism and Communism) were ensconced in Germany and Russia.