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Interesting, I've actually heard the opposite point made about Germany. My understanding is that the Allies considered Junkers, a Prussian and later German here
by manfredo 9y ago
Interesting, I've actually heard the opposite point made about Germany. My understanding is that the Allies considered Junkers, a Prussian and later German hereditary military class, to be one of the key factors that led a Germany to instigate WWII in Europe. This is why the Allies wanted Germany to institute a draft, to prevent one segment of the population from exerting near total control of the military.
At least that's my understanding of the establishment of the West German military.
- watwut 9y agoBoth can be true, but i dont know much about after ear. Prior WWII ex-soldiers had guaranteed employment in goverment. By law. So, trains, post, police, social help etc were all ex-soldiers. Meaning socialized in military, military values of obeisense, duty to do what is told, etc determining how all those institutions worked. They adjusted to Nazi rule remarkably well and without any fuss, including in beginning. Also, Germany had conscription since 1935 including labor for those not trusted to be in military. Hitler wanted war two no matter who ruled army, germany foreign policts wanted imperium, so I think it would happen even if hereditary officers were someone else. One more thing here. Nazi army and conscription and also school system were preparation for brutal war where Germans were meant to be the most brutal. Which essentially happened. One issue with military as mandatory training to teach you values and discipline and what not is that they might teach you wrong values including to be remarkably brutal.