Should the Entente have invaded Germany at end of WWI?

Everyone was worn to the bone, besides the US. It would have been an unnecessary loss of life. German defenses would have made it tough. No doubt the Entente could have achieved it with US backing, but at what cost? Don't think twice that the Germans wouldn't defend their country land with a furry. They still had excellent leadership and probably would have retreated to bolster their lines. WWI is a very overlooked part of history but still fascinating as we deal with its effects to this day.

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Questions like this and whether the US should have fought the USSR like Patton wanted completely overlook the fact that the troops generally want to go home before getting killed.

As an example, after WW2 many of the troops in Germany were told they were getting shipped off to the Pacific. They were not happy to hear this.

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It would have killed the backstab theory and Germans would've seen that they really lost

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What is this "backstab" theory? They Germany got fricked by the Treaty of Versailles? They absolutely did get fricked by that treaty.

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How would the backstab theory have no basis for belief if the Entente rejected Germany's request for an Armistice and battled all the way into Berlin? And then occupied the entire country of Germany instead of just the Rhineland and other western German provinces?

You're looking at it from the "now" perspective. You have to imagine the scenario you propose at that moment in history. You're asking, should the Entente, when Germany offered what was effectively an unconditional surrender, turned it down and continued to fight? What would they have kept fighting for? For Germany to surrender even more abjectly than what they had already offered to do? That would have been impossible. The Allied leadership would have been asking thousands, if not millions, more men to die in order to gain something they already had for the taking. There would have been riots and revolutions had they tried that. And if they were concerned about future German revanche, which would have seemed more likely at the time: that Germany would seek revenge for the war the way it ended historically, or that Germany would seek revenge for a war brought into her homeland after she had offered to surrender unconditionally?