Economic security/ Germany is repeating the very
same mistakes that led to disaster for Europe
In 1919, the European nations that had prevailed
in WWI imposed onerous peace terms on Germany via the Treaty of Versailles. The
harsh economic sanctions and reparations imposed on Germany led to economic
catastrophe, massive unemployment, hyperinflation and eventual political
turmoil, which led to the rise of fascism a little more than a decade later.
After only five years of strict enforcement, France finally relented and
canceled some of the more onerous terms of the treaty, but by then the economic
and political forces in Germany that would see the rise of Adolph Hitler were
already in motion. The Second World War
was already inevitable.
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