Aiti_mh t1_ja5l8gb wrote on February 27, 2023 at 12:29 AM

Reply to The list/ stats that I knew better than the periodic table in high school. by promantriple

Damn, I never noticed how well Heckler & Koch did in MW3. They bribe someone at Infinity Ward or something?

That aside I played eleventy gazillion hours of Survival with my brother. Good times.

Aiti_mh t1_ja3m7ge wrote on February 26, 2023 at 4:29 PM

Reply to Treaty of Versailles being ‘too harsh’ by -Mothman_

I think the problem was sooner the way the war ended than the peace terms agreed upon. The war didn't penetrate German borders; the German military was not 'thoroughly' defeated (though, really, it was not going to put up much resistance in October 1918 given the state it was in). This meant that whilst ordinary Germans had verifiably endured great hardships during the war, it wasn't clear to them that they had actually lost the war: hence the 'stab in the back'. Contrast this with 1945, when the bitterness of defeat became incredibly clear to Germans.

This didn't make Nazism or WW2 inevitable, but it created the situation in which the Right could tell the tale of a strong, proud Germany, on the verge of victory, being fucked over by socialists hell-bent on ruining the country. Versailles was just part of this myth.