Never Again

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Wikipedia: Never Again 

Yeah, wow, that's not remotely what I learned. Which isn't to say ANY of that is wrong but I knew of it as a statement by politicians and I understood it to be the motive behind setting up things like the World Bank.

Americans like to imagine I'm a pro Nazi Hitler apologist while Europeans apparently get taught what I eventually parsed out: The seeds of World War II were sewn by the War Reparations Germany was saddled with at the end of World War I (originally called The Great War) and so they decided two things:

1. In the tradition of what worked in the US to prevent our only Civil War from becoming the start of a cycle of civil wars (the USUAL outcome), they did not saddle the losing side with war reparations as had been the human tradition since time immemorial. Instead, the US went into Germany and Japan and helped them rebuild, just like The North went into The South and helped them rebuild per Grant's unprecedented policy set at the Surrender at Appomattox.

2. They created some global financial institutions intended to offer aid to distressed nations to try to prevent future large scale wars.


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