Christoph Reuss wrote:
Goods were crossing borders in 1939 and 1941 and yet WW2 erupted.
This *might* have to do with the fact that __too many__ goods had been
crossing borders before 1939 (WW1 reparations due to Versailles)...
I think Chris may have a good point here.
As I understand it, pre-WWI Germany was not anything like
Nazi Germany or Imperial Japan or Stalinist Russia: It was just
an imperialist power much like Great Britain. Germany lost;
we won. But both sides -- am I wrong in this? -- were pretty much
19th century imperialist-bourgeois states.
I think the ethical issues may have been
more serious for the American Civil War
than for WWI. Why couldn't the British
have done for the Germans as good as Grant did for Lee's
soldiers:
http://www.csamerican.com/Doc.asp?doc=Grant
It looks to me like Hitler was a result of Versailles, just like
what has developed in Russia during the
past 15 years is a result of American Cold War policies, and
ditto what is happening today in Iran.... I think
"our" Cold War victories have largely been Pyrrhic.
\brad mccormick
Chris
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