German Intellectuals Believed WW1 was a “Throughly Enabling Experience” - True Today?

Anyone who thought WWI was a good thing likely wasn’t within 100 miles of a front.

Some germans believed they would have won if the jews hadn’t stabbed them in the back.

even though “jewish bolsheviks” actually ended the war on the eastern front and America sent 2 million soldiers at the very end of the war.

the prevailing thought outside Germany was that it was such a horrific experience we should never do it again.

Naa. The Germanic states came together after the war in the 1870’s . Before 1914 bring a German was enjoyable then those pesky Prussians wanted expansion…

Fuddle fudeal system shite.

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there an argument to be made that there is benefit to a large-scale military campaign supposedly in the nation’s interest?

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I’ll say this, the French leader at then end of WW1 told his people before he passed not to be to hard on Germany.

The Versailles treaty was very harsh to Germany because the Rhineland was taken, which was a primary source of production for these people. To top is off, other European nations wouldn’t trade with Germany for years after the war. The depression they went through was 20x as harsh as ours. They ate potatoes basically to survive.

That will build resentment beyond belief.

Much like repeated waste of hundreds of millions of people’s tax dollars

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Said another way, some believe that easy times make soft men, but hard times bring them together.

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Hard times that require folks to put in long hours and bust their arse to improve their position is a lot different than a generation of young men being cut down in the prime of their lives by machine gun fire, artillery barrages, mustard gas, and the Spanish flu. That war was hell on earth.

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the rise of nationalism between 1920-1936 led Germany to WW2,

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That period also saw a lot of Germany's version of our flappers. Lotta German girls going to the clubs at night being naughty.

Asked the frickers who lost their lives in war if they are better off. Oh, you can't because they're desd

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Is there an argument to be made that there is benefit to a large-scale military campaign supposedly in the nation’s interest?

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The tree of liberty must be watered with the blood of patriots