Germany was offered a way out that led to more prosperity than Germans had known since before the war. In countries with twenty years of death and rampant inflation, you tend to vote for the parties that promise the most radical change. These parties were the National Socialists and the Communists. In the 1933 elections (where the Nazi Party had 43.9% of the vote, so the "all Germans voted for Hitler" myth is pretty much shot), the next two parties after the Nazi Party were what? That's right, the SPD and the KPD. That's three evils.
Maybe you should look at Austria instead if you want you "overwhelming support."
I'll go into that later, like I said. I'm treading the line with my schedule just by posting this.And who started the illegal bombing of cities?
If you were blamed for something you didn't do, your country was plunged into civil war, your territories were stripped, and your national pride destroyed, what would happen in most countries? You find a way to fight back. Germans did that. The Lloyd George quote holds true:I think Germany deserved it, because they set the tone for WWII.
"You may strip Germany of her colonies,
reduce her armaments to a mere police force,
and her navy to that of a fifth-rate power;
all the same, in the end if she feels she has been unjustly treated
in the peace of 1919 she will find means of exacting
retribution from her conquerors."
You have no sympathy for civilians? Germany was a dictatorship, not a democracy. I bet you have no sympathy for Iraqi civilians either? They were led by a pretty brutal man as well, were they not (in a dictatorship).Sherman burned our own country in the civil war, so I have little sympathy for countries led by Nazis.
I was talking about my family specifically. Whether Germans (less than half in the 1933 election, you may recall) supported Hitler or not is rather irrelevant. The last chance for the German voice to be heard was in 1933. And regardless of what you think, many Germans did not support the Nazi Party, and even less supported it after 1943.Oh, because the Germans didn't support the Nazis at all, did they?
But that does not matter. Is a firestorm justified for the women and children of Germany? Is the same justified for America when it wages wars of aggression?
Panzer answered this very eloquently and correctly.Dogs don't hold grudges for twenty years. Are you suggesting dog and human psychology are the same?
The history was world war one was a war unlike any other before it. Yes, parts of the treaty were probably unfair and overly harsh.
EDIT: And I'd like to make it clear to all Orgahs that I in no way, shape, or form condone the crimes of the Nazi Party. I also disagree with that party on an idealogical basis.
Bookmarks