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100% correct. ..In undergrad, I read some historians who posited the following: had reparations not further strangled the Germany economy before and during the Great Depression, the Weimar Republic might have had a chance, or at least the Reich could have been quashed in the 30s. Any history buffs have an opinion?
I have to disagree that it's a myth.
I have to disagree that it's a myth.
The German jewish leaders made a deal with the English that if Palestine was given to the jewish people.
They would use their influence with the American jews to persuade the U.S. government to enter the war against Germany.
England signed the Balfour Declaration giving the Jewish people a homeland in Palestine.
And subsequently America entered the war.
Which resulted in Germany losing the war. ..
I have to disagree that it's a myth.
The German jewish leaders made a deal with the English that if Palestine was given to the jewish people.
They would use their influence with the American jews to persuade the U.S. government to enter the war against Germany.
England signed the Balfour Declaration giving the Jewish people a homeland in Palestine.
And subsequently America entered the war.
Which resulted in Germany losing the war. ..
The main "back stabbing" came from the jewish German bankers who were complicit in causing the loss of the war.I have to disagree that it's a myth.
The German jewish leaders made a deal with the English that if Palestine was given to the jewish people.
They would use their influence with the American jews to persuade the U.S. government to enter the war against Germany.
England signed the Balfour Declaration giving the Jewish people a homeland in Palestine.
And subsequently America entered the war.
Which resulted in Germany losing the war. ..
The Germans weren't even defeated on the battlefield. The Allies were still 450 miles from Berlin. They were pissed that they had to pay anything at all.
The main "back stabbing" came from the jewish German bankers who were complicit in causing the loss of the war.I have to disagree that it's a myth.
The German jewish leaders made a deal with the English that if Palestine was given to the jewish people.
They would use their influence with the American jews to persuade the U.S. government to enter the war against Germany.
England signed the Balfour Declaration giving the Jewish people a homeland in Palestine.
And subsequently America entered the war.
Which resulted in Germany losing the war. ..
The Germans weren't even defeated on the battlefield. The Allies were still 450 miles from Berlin. They were pissed that they had to pay anything at all.
The average German citizen knew of the jewish treason years before there was a Nazi Party or a politician named Hitler. ..
England signed the Balfour Declaration giving the Jews the land called Palestine on 2 Nov. 1917.
And as the Jews promised, America entered the war 6 months later. ....
Germany has never had a problem finding a scapegoat for their aggression. It was the Allies reparations (which they did not pay, for the most part). It was the Jews. It was the Poles who raided Germany that caused WW2 to start. It was the communists that forced them to ban all political parties except National Socialism. If the Belgium's had not have fought back when Germany invaded them in 1914, the Germans would not have had to line them up against the wall, and shoot them. It was the world wide depression. It was the galloping inflation of the 1920's. It was the world wide Jewish banker conspiracy.
The truth of the matter is that, like Texans and politicians, Germans and guns is not a good combination
In undergrad, I read some historians who posited the following: had reparations not further stangled the Germany economy before and during the Great Depression, the Weimar Republic might have had a chance, or at least the Reich could have been quashed in the 30s. Any history buffs have an opinion?
The problem with that theory is that Germany actually paid little in the way of reparations, not enough to ruin its economy. What ruined its economy was the Allied insistence on 'privatizing' the Reich bank, which led to the bank's managers speculating on stock exchanges and generating a much higher inflation rate in Reichmarks, in an attempt to pay off war loans and private debt with an almost worthless currency.
The reparations weren't that large, and were spread out over decades, and not a real problem for an economy the size and productivity of Germany's. France paid reparations to Germany and its allies in the 1870's that were just as large relative to the size of its economy, and paid them off fairly quickly. Plus, The U.S. made arrangements to loan Germany most of the money at low interest right after the Versailles negotiations. The reparations weren't going to crush Germany; that was just the propaganda some Germans used to fool their own people as to the cause of their distress in the early '20's. In any case, Hitler refused to pay them once in power, so they weren't an issue even then.
There are charts that show the payments by year out there, along with American loans, etc.. It's easy to see its a myth; no opinions needed. One of the reasons France moved into western Germany was to get their reparations in goods, coal, etc., instead of waiting on German stalling on paying them.
Hitler's plan, as outlined in the 1920's in his book, was never so modest as to "...right the wrongs that had been done to Germany by the Treaty of Versailles". From the beginning, he planned on nothing less that the defeat of the Soviet Union, and occupation of it to the Caucasians, to give the Fatherland "Living room".
