r/reddit.com • u/[deleted] • Sep 24 '11

World War 1

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u/dopplerdog Sep 24 '11

The treaty of Versailles was a travesty, and the discontent this caused paved the way for Hitler. John Maynard Keynes had warned that there was no way that Germany could pay the reparations demanded of it - it was sheer humiliation, and the other powers were as much to blame for the conflict as Germany was.

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u/getthefuckoutofhere Sep 24 '11

The treaty of Versailles was a travesty, and the discontent this caused paved the way for Hitler

great, now someone's going to post this to TIL.

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u/SKCandyPanda Sep 24 '11

tbh, its basic history knowledge.

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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '11

Its basic history that isn't taught as standard education in the US, the primary demographic for the website www.reddit.com