Comments by "Nattygsbord" (@nattygsbord) on "How the Germans Cheated the Versailles Treaty" video.

I think it was banned as a part of the post-war de-nazification of Europe and that all bans on nazi-symbols simply remains on the law books because people usally are lazier to remove laws than to write them. Banning symbols is not the right way to go, but on the other hand can I understand why governments did what they did after nazi-Germanys many crimes against humanity that they didn't want people to forget or deny that they happened. Millions of allied solidiers had died, and an unconditional surrender had been demanded so Hitler wouldn't rise up again like new Napoleon and make a second attempt to take over the world by warfare.
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Interesting question that one can dig deeper into than what I can do now. I think that one thing should be kept in mind, and that is that things are different than what they are now. USA and Germany had mass unemployment and factories were closed down and unused. So there was not much problem to find men to work for the arments industry and dress up in uniforms. And empety factories could be converted into building tanks and guns. And the long period of poverty had made people used to a low standard of living, so people didn't complain much when the standard of living was low and the government took much of peoples salaries to pay for the military expansion. People simply no longer remembered what is what like to have a wage and living a life in comfort, so they didn't complain much when the civilian sector was drained of resources. But Germanys resources was scare and they didn't have enough steel to build everything they wanted, so their economy was overheating by the 1930s. But America didn't have much such problems. On the contrary, it even had to start cut down orders for war material as the war seemed won by late 1943 and many military units were demobilized even before the war ended. So America could have given much more than what they actully gave during the war. So even some heavy losses by some miraculus German victories could easily have been absorbed.
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The First world war proved that Germany had the best army in the world. The Austro-Hungrian army lost all their core units in 3 lost battles against the Russians the first months of the war, and the Ottomans wasted much of their offensive power with the stupid Armenia winteroffensive. And after that Germany had to fight the war mostly by herself, since her allies had exhausted almost all their offensive capabilities. But even so, Germany almost got close at winning the war entirely by herself. She knocked out Serbia from the war, and then Russia and Romania, and then Italy, and then also almost Belgium, France and Britain - which were only saved by the arrival by American troops in 1918. So I would say that the Army of the Kaiser was a much more impressive creation than the Wehrmacht. But in the end it would lose the war anyways because it didn't enough resources to keep on fighting, and the leadership also had some useless full retards in command as in all other armies at that time. Falkenhayn and his waste of a million men at Verdun is probably the best example. I think that Hitlers anti-monarchist anti-traditionalist attitudes made him an enemy of the old guard within the German army, which led him to fire all the old retards and put new fresh minds in the positions of power. And without Hitler, there would never had been any great career for Guderian, Manstein, von Paulus and others.
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The negative effects of Versaille treaty was discussed by a British economist named Keynes in his book "the economic consequences of the peace" written in 1919. And the German nazi party was created in 1920. So I guess that you are the idiot LtKharn.
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There was of course disatisfaction in Russia and Germany over all land they had lost in the world war. But a peaceful democratic government would probably not have taken over smaller countries as brutal as the dictators did. And I think the western allies helped to increase the tentions. First by limiting the size of the German army, so Poland could have a stronger force than Germany and go out and bully its neighbours and steal their land and creating bad neighbour relations. And the second foolish thing was the Munich agreement that made the allies look weak in Hitlers eyes so he felt tempted to attack Poland. And this betrayal of Czechioslovakia also meant a lost oppurtunity to stop Hitler while the odds were favourable. And this betrayal meant that the eastern countries lost trust in the west as an ally to rely upon.
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The allies in 1918 still had a chance to win the war without America, but so did Germany also according to John Keegan. The war could have ended in many different ways. Personally I think that the scale would have been slightly in Germanys favour.. but the most likely outcome would have been a peace without any losses or wins for any side on the western front. And the monarchies and empires would survive the war.
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