Noticing Patterns
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That ticking time bomb destined to breed resentment among the Germans, that onerous one sided 'agreement'?
" "This is not peace, this is an armistice for 20 years.""
" We shall have to fight another war again in 25 years time."
" "Never in the history of man has such vindictiveness cloaked itself in such unctuous sophistry."
" We arrived determined that a Peace of justice and wisdom should be negotiated; we left the conference conscious that the treaties imposed upon our enemies were neither just nor wise."
That thing? It was a cause of hitler's rise. That it was there for him to tear up was a gift to his cause.
A nation is always going to want to be able to field an army. Not being allowed to breeds resentments.
Breaking these 'agreements' isn't the cause of WWII, the 'agreements' themselves were the cause.
Exactly, the problem I have with "Hitler is the devil"ists, is that they're looking at a dot-to-dot puzzle, ignoring all the dots they don't like, and connecting just the ones that draw the picture the want to see...
KEK
Please cite where I said he did nothing wrong.
Acknowledging Hitler as a multifaceted Leader (wether you like it or not, he was one), is not absolving him of atrocities he and his regime caused.
Acknowledging there were multiple reasons for Germany to then, go to war is not tantamount to doing nothing wrong or being apologetic for it.
The treaty of Versailles and all its clauses were designed to be broken. As said previously, it wasn't a peace treaty it was a "let's delay this issue until later" tactic. Almost all treaties and amnesties are designed in this way.
The one that was imposed on Germany after WWII was exactly the same. Over punitive and designed to be broken.