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moondust

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8. Make Germany Great Again.

Reply to Playinghardball (Original post)

Thu May 12, 2016, 06:46 PM

May 2016

After the devastation of World War I, the victorious western powers imposed a series of harsh treaties upon the defeated nations. These treaties stripped the Central Powers (Germany and Austria-Hungary, joined by Ottoman Turkey and Bulgaria) of substantial territories and imposed significant reparation payments.

https://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10007428

Hitler exploited the situation for political gain. A lot of Germans felt battered after losing the war and then from the reparations. They apparently really fell for the idea of Germany rising up and being great again. Add to that a lot of peer pressure and enforced conformity and boom...

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