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7/6/2025, 1:41:11 PM
>>17816722
Most people don't understand the difference between Nazism and German ultranationalism. Germany was ripe for a revanchist and ultranationalist takeover ever since 1918.
The reason is that the majority of German population was completely unaware how complete the defeat on the frontline was. Kaiser's government was very skilled in creating a bubble of false news and false impressions that convinced the bulk of the German population that victory was at hand until the very end. THIS is what made the German public so susceptible to the stab-in-the-back mythos. THIS is also what made the defeat so shocking and the relatively modest terms of the Versailles became to be seen as intolerable.
The oft forgotten is that even in the 1920s the successive German governments were making moves towards massive rearmament and military expansion in defiance of Versailles limitations. They made skillful use of diplomacy, goodwill and war weariness of the Western governments to progressively wind down all controls and move all goalposts. Hitler's government didn't change much in that regard, he literally used timetables and programs that were developed already under Weimar regime.
Germany coming for Round 2 of the World War was pretty much inevitable and stemmed from the fact that Versailles failed to resolve any of the underlying causes of WW1. The only question of why Hitler and not somebody else and why Nazism and not some other blend of militarism or nationalism. The honest answer is that it was most likely the result of Hilter's own political skills, the weakness and infighting of his rivals and the giant Black Swan that was the Great Crisis. Especially without the latter, the war that would have happened anyway would be much more like WW1 in ideological terms.
>>17818377
The latter part is correct. They even used the same argument. "Why can't we do what the Anglos did themselves?"
Most people don't understand the difference between Nazism and German ultranationalism. Germany was ripe for a revanchist and ultranationalist takeover ever since 1918.
The reason is that the majority of German population was completely unaware how complete the defeat on the frontline was. Kaiser's government was very skilled in creating a bubble of false news and false impressions that convinced the bulk of the German population that victory was at hand until the very end. THIS is what made the German public so susceptible to the stab-in-the-back mythos. THIS is also what made the defeat so shocking and the relatively modest terms of the Versailles became to be seen as intolerable.
The oft forgotten is that even in the 1920s the successive German governments were making moves towards massive rearmament and military expansion in defiance of Versailles limitations. They made skillful use of diplomacy, goodwill and war weariness of the Western governments to progressively wind down all controls and move all goalposts. Hitler's government didn't change much in that regard, he literally used timetables and programs that were developed already under Weimar regime.
Germany coming for Round 2 of the World War was pretty much inevitable and stemmed from the fact that Versailles failed to resolve any of the underlying causes of WW1. The only question of why Hitler and not somebody else and why Nazism and not some other blend of militarism or nationalism. The honest answer is that it was most likely the result of Hilter's own political skills, the weakness and infighting of his rivals and the giant Black Swan that was the Great Crisis. Especially without the latter, the war that would have happened anyway would be much more like WW1 in ideological terms.
>>17818377
The latter part is correct. They even used the same argument. "Why can't we do what the Anglos did themselves?"
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