why was the interwar period such a shitshow? i find it really

>>2954380
>radicalization of germany as anything but a direct result of Allied policy
>Allied policy

>>2954382
explain how its not

>>2954389
>doing nothing at all
>policy

>>2954394
so you agree

>>2954403
>doing something
>bad
>doing nothing
>bad

>>2954380
>why was the interwar period such a shitshow?
An enormous portion of the lower rungs of the European aristocracy was wiped out in WWI, essentially severing the post-WWI world from traditional pre-war power structures, and you had a whole generation of young men raised as conscripts in the trenches. Plus, communism was rising in the East and the European economy had been devastated.

So you've got millions of men accustomed to violence, trained in the use of weapons, and with nothing much to do in life. And you've got massive political upheaval. There's really no way this doesn't lead to fascism.

A. Paul Weber is amazing. Was associated with Jünger and Niekisch in the Conservative Revolutionary movement, his British pictures are his vitriol towards modern global imperial

Versailles didn't help, but the Great Depression was a much bigger factor in German revanchism. People were upset, but not upset enough to risk what little they had left on another war. Once the Great depression hit, and they truly had nothing, then they became desperate enough to elect a madman like Hitler.