Many are quick to pin the blame for WW2 on Germany. People use their starting of WW1 as proof. they say that the germans were unhappy after their defeat and humiliation. But, odd as it may seem, the people to blame are the Entente of WW1.
While nearing the end of WW1, the german spirit had been broken. The people were malnourished and over worked. The autocracy fell and they needed a new government.
So the Entente established the Weimar Republic. However, the european portion of the entente, meaning France and Britain at the time, were not content with only defeating the Germans. They imposed reparations, or large fees due to the losers of a war as an apology and to pay for damages. the brand new, nearly unaided, and complete priha that was the Weimar Republic had no money. So they began to print and print in order to pay off the Entente. Unfortunately, the only real effect of all the money printing was rapid inflation. No one saw an increase in pay. So a loaf of bread costed about a wheel barrel full of marks, the form of money at the time. This increased the ill feelings in Germany. Why was no one helping? What could the people to to feed their families? There were no answers to be found in germany.
Until a man name Hitler used his rhetoric to persuade a nation. He told them that he had the solutions, that he could fix germany and feed her families. So the people did the only thing they thought they could. They followed that man i to war again. To prove german superiority (no one is superior based on race) and reclaim what had been stole from them. They wanted their old lives back, and we forced them into following one of the most evil men of all time.
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