Myth and Reality

I don't know what else there could be but WWI to explain the transformation of a harmless lazy, dreaming artist wanna-be into a brutal class-act despot and messianic war leader of the Germans.


There were plenty of other would-be Fuehrers in Germany after WWI. I don't think the war guilt trip laid on Germany or the crippling reparations were a very good idea in retrospect. But France wanted revenge and England probably did too.


Notice they didn't make that same mistake after WWII.


There was no good reason for World War One in my opinion. It was a totally useless event. And had the United States not entered on the side of the Allies in 1917 and saved the war, the exhausted combatants were ready to quit as all the armies had had enough and were near mutiny. That too, would have provided a better ending than what we got, although the mass insanity should have been avoided in the first place.


Of course had there been no WWI or II, my gun collection would be considerably smaller.