Why were both World War I and World War II caused by Germany? What was the German politics and military like at that time?

After the First Time War, Germany became a defeated nation and was disarmed.

However, in just 20 years, Germany rose again and became the largest military power in Europe.

This is almost unimaginable if you consider that it also experienced the most severe inflation and social unrest in history during this period.

Some people always believe that Hitler's Iron Bowl policy and the blood and tears of the Jews created the Third Reich, but behind the iron and blood there were more people and events that pushed Germany to the path of no return to militarism.

Chapter 1: The Treaty of Versailles, a 20-year truce. On November 11, 1918, the bloody and cruel First World War finally came to an end.

As a defeated country, Germany will lose 13% of its territory, pay $32 billion in war reparations, plus $500 million in annual interest; export products will be levied an additional fee of 26%, and lose all overseas colonies; the army can only retain 100,000 people.

The navy's main battleships shall not exceed six, and shall not possess offensive weapons such as submarines, aircraft, tanks or heavy artillery.

British Prime Minister David Lloyd George once declared that "we will search the pockets of the Germans to find the money," but privately he admitted: "The document (peace treaty) we have drafted will be the basis for the future 20 years from now."

It sets the stage for war. When you impose such conditions on the German people, it can only lead to the Germans either not complying with the treaty or starting a war." British Foreign Secretary Lord Curzon held the same view. He said:

"This will not bring peace. This is just a 20-year truce." After seeing the agreement, U.S. President Wilson frowned and said: "If I were a German, I think I would never sign it.

This agreement. "The problem is not whether politicians realize the nature of the problem, the problem is that the "masters" behind them are the real decision-makers.

The bankers who accompanied Wilson to Paris were: Paul Warburg, chief financial adviser, Morgan and his lawyer Frank, Thomas Lemmon, a senior partner of Morgan & Co., Baruch, chairman of the War Industrial Commission, the Dulles brothers (

One was the later head of the CIA, and the other was Eisenhower's Secretary of State).

The British Prime Minister is succeeded by Sir Philip Sassoon, a direct descendant of the Rothschild family.

French Prime Minister Clemenceau's senior advisor was Georges Mandel, whose real name was Jeroboam Rothschild.

The chief representative of the German delegation is Paul's eldest brother Max Warburg.

When international bankers gathered in Paris, Baron Edmond de Rothschild, later the "Father of Israel," provided a warm welcome as host and arranged for the leading figures of the American delegation to stay at his luxurious Paris estate.

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The Paris Peace Conference was actually a carnival for international bankers. After making huge war profits, they casually sowed the seeds of the next war—World War II.

It is generally believed that although most of the Western Front battles in World War I took place in France, and France suffered heavy losses as a result, Clemenceau's policies were still too radical and too harsh on Germany.

Moreover, the treaty was a peace imposed by the victors on the losers, which was a humiliation to Germany.

To this day, historians still have different views on this.

In his book The Economic Consequences of the Peace, Keynes called it a "Carthaginian peace", comparing France's victory over Germany to France's victory over Carthage and its total destruction in the Punic Wars.

Roman Empire.

Later, French economist Etienne Mantoso expressed his different views in an open letter to Keynes, and pointed out that Keynes's post-war predictions did not come true. For example, Keynes predicted that European steel production would decline. In fact, in 1929

Production increased by 10% compared with 1913. Keynes predicted that German steel production would decline. In fact, German steel and iron production increased by 30% and 38% respectively in 1927 compared with 1913, and the data for 1913 included the post-war German cession.

territory.

Another example is Keynes's prediction that Germany's domestic savings after the war would not exceed 2 billion marks, but in fact the figure in 1925 was 6.4 billion and 7.6 billion in 1927.

Keynes predicted that Germany would not be able to pay more than 2 billion marks in reparations within 30 years of the treaty coming into force. Mantoso claimed that Germany spent seven times this amount on rearmament between 1933 and 1939.

Recently, there is another view that Germany benefited a lot from the treaty. For example, historian Gerhard Weinberg mentioned in his book "The War at Hand" that the German political system established by Bismarck was not only not destroyed but

was preserved, and Germany avoided large-scale military control by the victorious powers after the war (especially compared with the situation after World War II).

Looking back now, in 1919 Germany actually achieved a more favorable strategic situation than when the war broke out five years ago, especially in the east of Germany. The originally expanding and pro-French Russian Empire, both economically and militarily, disappeared and was replaced by

What emerged was a Soviet Russia that was diplomatically isolated, had constant internal disputes, and was embroiled in civil war.