I'm no Nazi...

Sure, other countries were engaging in less than honorable actions, but they weren't going around sparking off one world war after another.



Then clearly your Austrian lecturer was wrong.

It doesn't help that people like you are still trying to shift the blame for the War on others...

Poland asked for it remember; the German-faked attack on a German radio station. Them damn Poles asking for their country to be invaded and millions of their people slaughtered in the name of racial purity for the Germans. All their fault, not the fault of the Germans at all of course. No, the Germans didn't start hostilities, they didn't put Hitler in power, they didn't build camps to annihilate Jews, gays, slavs, gypsies, the mentally ill, they didn't ally with the Soviet Union in agreement to invade Poland, they never invaded Czechoslovakia, it's all a big Allied conspiracy theory against the poor Germans who in their whole history have always been the victim, never the aggressor. Poor poor ugly krauts.

Remind me who forced Germany to invade France in WWI.

either way when I get back to aston I'm keeping an eye on the German society. they're plotting I swear!

yeah right..... You said that before you remilitarised the rhineland!!!!! (not you specifically of course, that would make you far older than you appear to be)

I may be entirely wrong, as WWI history isn't near an interest of mine, but didn't Russia begin mobilising all of it's troops on it's European border in 1914? Germany must've known that the Brits and French wouldn't stay out of a conflict of that scale?

They had rivalry long before that. There are other factors too.

I'm not saying Germany aren't at fault, I'm saying that responsibility for causing it doesn't completely fall on their head.

The same reason people who lean to the left get called commies

Britain DID stay out of WWI until Germany invaded neutral Belgium. No way to tell whether France would declare war on Germany or not; fact is that Germany attacked France totally unprovoked. Russia and Austria were dragged into the war mostly through miscalculations. Germany actually wanted the war (to alter the power balance in Europe and outside of Europe).

Forgot about this thread - Germany only invaded France through Belgium because as soon as the Russians mobilised, the French coming into the war was inevitable, no? I always got the impression that the French/Russian/British alliance was pretty strong following the years preceding it?

Why don't we examine the contribution of socialists throughout political history? Maybe we can start with the "National Socialist German workers party"?

So because socialist was in the name then the Nazis were socialists?

I guess that means North Korea is a democracy because it's called the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?

And East Germany was a democracy as it was called the German Democratic Republic?