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echo: all-politics
to: MIKE POWELL
from: BOB ACKLEY
date: 2019-05-25 11:02:00
subject: Re: Iran

> > I agree with most of your post, but I have to point out that Hitler
> > declared war on the US on Dec 11, 1941.  Hitler was also sinking US ships
> > that were carrying supplies to Britain.
> 
> True but, if the US had also not been involved in WWI, I am wondering if
> the attitude towards the US would have been different.  Germany was
> destroyed by the concessions they made during their WWI surrender.  To an
> extent, I feel like they were out for revenge against all of the countries
> that put them in that position.

Actually, what happened is that the German goverment continued its
generous social spending programs after WW I.  Unfortunately the war
reparations demanded by the Allies pretty much destroyed the German
economy.  In about 1922 or 1923 the German economy collapsed due to
rampant (100 percent per DAY) inflation, and with it went the German
government.  That provided an avenue for Hitler to get into power.

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