Quote Originally Posted by PanzerJager
This thread is asking people's opinion about Versailles and how it contributed to the lead up to war. Were the feelings of revenge justified?

The war was fought over 60 years ago, there is no reason why it cannot be discussed in an adult manner without all the immature name calling.

Hitler did not simply gain power on the strength of his rhetoric. He played on the feelings and emotions of a great number of the German people. Some of those feelings were justified and some were not. A discussion of those feelings is not revisionist, nazi, or nonsense.
No it is not. Read your first post again. You ask, in essence, whether the war was justified on the basis of Versaille, not whether feeling of revenge were justified.

Besides which you have a reputation as a Third Reich fanboy and I for one look forward to threads such as "Were the SS really that bad, after all they really loved their dear old mums".

Fact is that by the outbreak of war Versailles was dead and the balance of power had shifted to Germany. There is reason to believe that Hitler could have got his more reasonable demands (eg the German territory given to Poland) through negotiation. Poland's allies would likely have sold her down the river. However Hitler's treatment of Czechoslovakia shows that this was never really going to be an option on his behalf.