3 ms·
> The Nazis were stopped from outside Yes, after killing 30 million+ people. It would have been much easier if Germans didn't enable them or someone took out
by Mikeb85 5y ago
> The Nazis were stopped from outside
Yes, after killing 30 million+ people. It would have been much easier if Germans didn't enable them or someone took out Hitler in 1938.
And we punished Germany for generations because of it. The US still has military bases there to this day.
- School-Cotton 5y agoGermany has been fully sovereign since 1991; they can ask the US troops to leave whenever they want to. The existence of US basis there now can hardly be considered “punishment”.
- hutzlibu 5y agoAh well, we do have quite some Reichsbürger (think QAnon people) who indeed say, germany is still occupied. But after Trump made the actual decision to pull out all US troops, there was rather lots of whining, because the military bases are important for the local economies ..
- abnry 5y agoI looked it up and the ratio of German soldiers to US soldiers is about 2:1 in Germany. Pretty remarkable when you think about. They are kind of outsourcing their military to the US. And that's a choice the Germans made, and are starting to reverse.
- Etherlord87 5y ago> And we punished Germany for generations because of it. Poland, who fought Germany with the biggest % casualties, ended up in a much worse state than Germany, because of russian occupation in the form of communism (Germany had a healthy part to take over after USSR collapsed) and no participation in the marshal plan. So I have doubts if we can speak about Germany being punished for generations.
- rurban 5y agoHold on. US industrialists (so called fascists) enabled Hitler. Without them he would have never won any election and started all those wars and purges.