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Originally Posted by bradclark1
The treaty was violated time and again and no country did a thing about it.
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Two reasons for that. The first is war weariness. Nobody wanted to get into another world war after that last doozie. Secondly it was also partly sympathy for Germany that allowed the rest of Europe to let Hitler grow. The absurdly punitive sections of the Versailles Treaty led to a severely empoverished and economically stalled Germany and as such Hitler's 'noble' goals for rebuilding the German state were, combined with the unwillingness to broach war, accepted and even encouraged through inaction. There were those that saw the truth but inevitably the seeds of 1919 would grow.
Marshal Foch was ridiculously right. Whats 1919 + 20? :hmm: