Book: The second world war. Page 12

The winners imposed to the Germans, everything that was the ideal sought by liberal Western countries. They were relieved of the burden of compulsory military service and from having to bear the costs associated with the service. Finally, despite the fact that they had no credit, they were imposed enormous amerikanskie loans.

Misconceptions regarding the assistance of the defeated country combined with favorable interest rates on loans and prompted British investors to participate, albeit on a much smaller scale than the us. Thus Germany received in loans of two billion pounds against one billion of reparations.

Germany has paid or been able to pay the squeezed of her later contribution exclusively due to the fact that the United States generously lend to the whole of Europe, and her in particular.

Marshal Foch heard of the signing of the Treaty of Versailles, is a true said, "This is not the world. It is a truce for twenty years."

Where was that security without which all that has been conquered, lost its value and life itself, even in the midst of the victory celebrations have become almost unbearable? A necessity was safety - safety at any cost, by any means, no matter how they are harsh or even cruel.

At the end of the world war in 1914, almost all were deeply convinced and was hoping in the world will be peace. It is the innermost aspiration of all peoples it was easy to implement, firmly defending the fair beliefs and with the necessary common sense and prudence.

People who speak in English, because of his imprudence, carelessness and good nature allowed to re-arm the forces of evil.

The moral of this work:
in the war - determination
in defeat, the courage
in victory, magnanimity
in the world - goodwill

I write this not in order to to justify. Was I supposed to know it all. My advisors had to know they were required to inform me, and I had to ask them. I didn't ask about it though and asking thousands of other questions, because the idea that Singapore might not be a defense to the sushi, just didn't occur to me as, say, couldn't come up with the idea about the possibility of launching a battleship without a bottom.

The war began to come into its own potential exterminator of the human race only at the dawn of the twentieth century of the Christian era. The unity of mankind in the larger States of the Empire and the awakening of the peoples collective identity helped to plan and carry out bloodshed on such a scale and with such persistence, which previously did not even have representation. All the noblest qualities of individuals were assembled for amplification of the destructive power of mass. Reliable finances, the opportunities provided by the world credit and trade, the accumulation of large reserves of capital - all this allowed for long periods switch the energy of entire peoples to destruction.