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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Raymond Duray who wrote (9370)11/8/2001 9:27:16 AM
From: Ilaine  Read Replies (3) of 281500
 
The Germans were ticked about reparations, and losing their colonies (part of reparations). The Austrians were ticked about losing their empire. (The Ottomans were probably ticked, too, but I've never studied that part.) The French were ticked about WWI largely having been fought on French territory. The Allies were ticked about having to repay money they borrowed from America (bonds, again, not the US government - they thought our government should have forgiven the bonds as part of our contribution to the war - go figure.) The US was ticked because the Allies did not want to repay the money they borrowed, and insisted on making repayment conditional on Germany making reparations to them first. Most of Western Europe was ticked about the Communists taking over Russia. The Communists were ticked because the Allies tried to overthrow them after the end of WWI, and refused to recognize them as legitimate, and cut them off from the rest of the European economy. The Germans were ticked at the Communists because they thought that the reason they lost the war was due to Communist sabotage (total BS but that's what they were told and they believed it.) The German generals never told the German people that they were going to lose the war until it was inevitable - then they blamed it on Communists and Commie sympathizers inside Germany. The German people never quite got over the shock. Hitler was one example. He honestly believed that Germany was going to win WWI, and bought the story that Germany could have won, but for the Commie/Jew traitors. The fact that the Weimar Republic enfranchised Jews and Communists fed his paranoia.

Lots of people were ticked at the end of WWI. War is funny that way.
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