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I asked myself this while reading Black Edelweiss along with some other memoirs from German soldiers. Thier national pride was seemingly taken away by this treaty.
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They were happy Hitler starting "reversing" them.
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Was it bad planning on the Allies part to impose such heavy fines on the Germans? If you think about them, how could a country accept these fines for so long.
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Especially when new generations of Germans were growing up with them, possibly not feeling really connected to the reason they were imposed.
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Did the heavy fines just give Germany a reason to fight? How could the Allies really believe they could keep a country down and out for so long and at the same time be so oblivious to its massive build up?
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Its like caging an animal or imprisoning a human, they will just want to escape. If they escape who do you blame? The escapee or the prison guard?
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