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None of the leaders of Germany in WWI were still in power by the time WWII started. The exact opposite lesson was in fact learned by the Allies from WWI: inste

None of the leaders of Germany in WWI were still in power by the time WWII started. The exact opposite lesson was in fact learned by the Allies from WWI: instead of crippling Germany and the other Axis powers like the French did after WWI, they went with the Marshall plan, rebuilding their economies and making sure they have an actual future. The Kaiser wasn't the problem after WWI, it was poverty that allowed the Nazis to rise to power.

andrepd 2y ago
>None of the leaders of Germany in WWI were still in power by the time WWII started. This isn't really true. Hindenburg was instrumental in Hitler's rise to power. Ludendorff was the de facto dictator during WWI and proceeded to create the stab-in-the-back myth and to fight for the Nazis. There is absolutely lots of continuity between the WWI regime and the Nazis.
- WalterBright 2y ago
  Hindenburg was a senile old man at the time. He thought he could control Hitler.
lupusreal 2y ago
After Germany surrendered and the war in Europe was over, America began systematically dismantling West Germany's industrial capabilities. No aid was to be given save the absolute minimum needed to prevent starvation, all the work of rebuilding Germany was to be left to the Germans. The Red Cross was forbidden to visit allied camps of German POWs to provide food or aid. It was even forbidden for Americans to send packages of food to Germans. Over the next two or three years these orders were one-by-one rescinded and reversed, mostly for national security reasons when the Soviet threat was acknowledged and Germany's role in countering that Soviet threat was understood. But even then, in the end only a small portion of the Marshall plan went to West Germany. Most of it went to the rest of western Europe.
- actionfromafar 2y ago
  18 countries got help from the Marshall plan, (West) Germany got 11% of it.
  - WalterBright 2y ago
    Britain and France got the bulk of it, and yet did not experience the economic revival that Germany did.

andrepd 2y ago

>None of the leaders of Germany in WWI were still in power by the time WWII started. This isn't really true. Hindenburg was instrumental in Hitler's rise to power. Ludendorff was the de facto dictator during WWI and proceeded to create the stab-in-the-back myth and to fight for the Nazis. There is absolutely lots of continuity between the WWI regime and the Nazis.

WalterBright 2y ago
Hindenburg was a senile old man at the time. He thought he could control Hitler.

lupusreal 2y ago

After Germany surrendered and the war in Europe was over, America began systematically dismantling West Germany's industrial capabilities. No aid was to be given save the absolute minimum needed to prevent starvation, all the work of rebuilding Germany was to be left to the Germans. The Red Cross was forbidden to visit allied camps of German POWs to provide food or aid. It was even forbidden for Americans to send packages of food to Germans. Over the next two or three years these orders were one-by-one rescinded and reversed, mostly for national security reasons when the Soviet threat was acknowledged and Germany's role in countering that Soviet threat was understood. But even then, in the end only a small portion of the Marshall plan went to West Germany. Most of it went to the rest of western Europe.

actionfromafar 2y ago
18 countries got help from the Marshall plan, (West) Germany got 11% of it.
- WalterBright 2y ago
  Britain and France got the bulk of it, and yet did not experience the economic revival that Germany did.