Treaty of Versailles - Modern Reappraisal

[Husar]

I am not sure Auschwitz and 9-11 are comparable to states waging war. You are getting uncomfortably close to reasoning that took hold 25 years after Versailles. That Auschwitz was merely justified revenge, a tit-for-tat, doing unto 'them' what they did to us. Then again, I said it before: it is not merely rhetoric to say that Versailles lore caused sixty million deaths.
This is part of the Versailles lore that no serious scholarship can overcome: Germany as the persecuted victim A state that simply loses a war - as states so often do, is not the same as inflicting terrible injustice upon it, never mind mass murder.

I simply don't like blanket statements like "Losers can't be choosers." It's rather comparable to "Jews are bad."* so there you go.
WW1 was probably started because the Kaiser told Austria "We're with you whatever you do."
Of course the Versailles treaty was a valve for french revenge for 1871, while 1871 was the noble fight for german unification against the evil French who tried to prevent it. That Versailles was not really bad for us was certainly not because of french modesty.

Now that the Germans at the time found it unfair is hardly surprising, I'm sure the French found 1871 unfair as well, Bismarck's whole aim for the years afterwards was to try and prevent France from doing what Germany did after WW1, start another war to get revenge. Now obviously the allies were less successful than Bismarck.

* Note: Author is intending this as an exemplar and NOT expressing an opinion. ALL posters should use care in doing so in order to convey their point without accidentally casting aspersions. Please argue with care. --SF