Not just politically, France simply lacked the economics/demographics to be the gendarme of Europe. If they would try to enforce they would have been bankrupt pretty quickly.
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Not just politically, France simply lacked the economics/demographics to be the gendarme of Europe. If they would try to enforce they would have been bankrupt pretty quickly.
they also let the germans skip out on their war debt.
...because Germany saddled with war debt joins the soviets...which isnt a better choice, as far as they knew at the time.
Right?
at least that's what the Germans were saying... cuz... you know... trustworthy guys over there in Berlin...
It seems to me, from a potentially ignorant view point, that the Versilles treaty was the worst middle road, kind of like Caudine Forks, and from what I've understood the Western Powers were tough when they should have been soft and soft when the should have been tough. Namely in that they were tough on Weimar where they should have been soft to a democractic Germany, and they were soft on Nazi Germany when they should have been tough when Germany left the democratic fold.
But maybe that's just me with hindsight and I claim in no way to be an expert on the period. So its entirely possible that the Western powers did not have the capacity to be tough on Nazi Germany in the 1930s or that I simply lack a grasp on the situation in the 1930s. But there you have my current view on it.
But maybe that's just me with hindsight and I claim in no way to be an expert on the period. So its entirely possible that the Western powers did not have the capacity to be tough on Nazi Germany in the 1930s or that I simply lack a grasp on the situation in the 1930s. But there you have my current view on it.
A hundred years ago, people did not yet realize how awful fascism (and communism) would be. The concept of a German fascist ruler was not far off some Fred the great kind of absolutism in people's mind. Socialists hadn't purged anyone. Nazis hadn't started any wars. That all comes from hindsight.
Two hundred years ago, people knew they had to stand up for themselves or be made into a dependency. What they never imagined was that intellectual discussions of history would always inevitably become about the Prussians...
Two hundred years ago, people knew they had to stand up for themselves or be made into a dependency. What they never imagined was that intellectual discussions of history would always inevitably become about the Prussians...