>be me >think WW1 is a morally neutral war, with no clear good guys or bad guys >Finally start to actually read about WW1 >Find out about the Rape of Belgium >Hundreds, if not thousands of Belgian civilians were executed by the German army while passing through into France >Same thing happened in Serbia >Read about the murder of Edith Cavell >Read about the Zimmerman Telegram >Read about unrestricted U-boat warfare >Read about the Lusitania
Why do people think that Versailles was harsh? They got off pretty easy TBQH.
I don't think anyone believes Versailles was harsh. The French wanted to go much further but David Lloyd George intervened and softened it down.
Robert Carter
Imagine if it was Brest levels harsh. Germs are hypocrites to the max.
Josiah Watson
They say the winners write history, but they forget about how much damage a butthurt loser can do if nobody else cares enough to stop them from raping the historical record.
This is incidentally the same disease plaguing historiography of the American civil war
Luke Collins
The Lusitania really was carrying ammunition. The Brits lied because it was convenient for them and used the passengers as human shields. centenarynews.com/article?id=1616
Adam Martin
>Why do people think that Versailles was harsh? Because it was counterproductive to economically destroy the German people, who had stood up against the idiocy of the Kaisserreich and insisted on peace. They did so in spite of their utterly discredited leadership class. The Germans who ended the war and came to the peace table should have been welcomed as heroes by the Allies, with full recognition of German gallantry for the past 4 years.
Jack Rogers
Especially since the Eternal Deutsch themselves imposed ludicrously steep war reparations on the French after the Franco Prussian war. French should have kept the Ruhr and broken Germany up into pieces.
Isaac Carter
Tee bee aytch, the allies should have insisted on either status quo antebellum or occupation.
I blame Republicans for undermining Wilson
Xavier Gray
To be fair, neither side had legitimate claims to the land.
Aiden Clark
No one ever disputed that the Lusitania was carrying ammunition. The main German charge was that she was carrying illegal munitions, which at the least would've amounted to explosive ammunition and at most could've been high explosives. But there's no hard evidence to date the Lusitania was carrying either, only hearsay.
Leo Smith
What is the reasoning for the V-shape? Why not a straight line?
Josiah Ortiz
Germany should've been dissolved between the entente
Josiah Reyes
>Sink a ship carrying 1000s of innocent civilians because weapons were on board. >Instead of expressing feelings of sorrow or embarrassment like a human being would, Krauts strike a commemorative medal celebrating the occasion.
Logan Morgan
Don't forget about chemical warfare Before there was just tear gas canisters, but then the eternal kraut got the idea to release giant clouds of poison into the air
Connor Long
>Because it was counterproductive to economically destroy the German people Good thing Versailles never did that then
Luis Thompson
During the war, German poet Ernst Lissauer composed a lengthy poem called "The Hymn to Hate", in which, without an ounce of irony, he goes on about the German race's eternal undying hatred of the English. Just an exerpt: >We have but one and only hate, >We love as one, we hate as one, >We have one foe and one alone. >He is known to you all, he is known to you all, >He crouches behind the dark gray flood, >Full of envy, of rage, of craft, of gall, >Cut off by waves that are thicker than blood... ENGLAND Wilhelm loved it, naturally, and had it widely distributed throughout the empire.
James Ross
Lusitania was carrying arms. The unrestricted sub warfare was to combat arms going from Britain and America to the mainland.
Mason Ward
Yes, the German army suffered from guerrilla attacks by civilians and disruption to their supply, as well as Britain using civilian liners as human shields to move war supplies. Don't tell me you think anything is beyond Britain, just because they failed to pioneer U-boat warfare.
At least Germany took its licks and kept its fighting spirit up until the end, despite "peace at any cost" Russia and "Satan incarnate but plays the victim" Britain. France was the only great power of the Entente that wasn't a nasty, perfidious little demon (Britain) and actually held its own without complaint, like the Germans.
Chase Campbell
Wasn't harsh enough
Adam Ortiz
Total lack of self-awareness as always Hans
Andrew Sanchez
No, Germany was no angel but playing them as THE villain of the war is ridiculous and American-tier clueless.
Britain should have gotten its ass wholesale whipped for being an evil little shit since the treachery of the long knives-to-present.
Playing Germany as a warmonger in what was a powderkeg of secret alliances and bad blood is just silly. Their only crime that a member of the entente couldn't also be blamed for is making early use of gas and U-boat warfare.
Henry Martinez
just so you know your awareness of foreign policy in that time is utterly mistaken
