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Originally Posted by JChip
I think that prior to war is more relevant than after the war.
Here's a link on Franco-Prussian War after which in 1871 France was forced to sign humiliating treaty with Germany loosing Alsace-Lorraine...This was before the humiliation of Germany that followed much later in Versailles in which France got Alsace-Lorraine back...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franco-Prussian_War |
As I recall Hitler had fought in WWI and in fact was in hospital having been temporarily blinded by gas when he learned that Germany had lost the war. I can imagine that helped fuel his resentment on a personal level. Here he'd fought and was suffering as a result and it had come to naught. Doesn't excuse his later actions of course but I imagine it was a personal sore spot.