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  1. Simonbob

    History How culpable is Versailles for Nazi Germany?

    When you have a billion, and it's just enough to buy a loaf of bread. Heh. A few years ago, there was a story about a bank robbery in Venezuela. They stole the furniture, the computers, and pretty much everything not nailed down. They left all the money, though. It wasn't worth picking up.
  2. Simonbob

    History How culpable is Versailles for Nazi Germany?

    However, it might well have butterflied the Nazis. If the conditions in Germany weren't so bad, they might not have fallen for the radicals, and WW2 might not have happened, on that basis. I also note, when WW2 was on it's way, the French and Brits weren't ready, and their public wasn't...
  3. Simonbob

    History How culpable is Versailles for Nazi Germany?

    No, the big thing was that it set the stage that lead to the Nazi rise, in a few different ways. Part was, as you said, as a pretext, as a way to blame others for what they were going to do. But, there was another side, and that's that it, and trying to meet the demands it imposed, seriously...
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