World War I and World War II, became the largest war in human history, and in these two battles, there is a Voice of Germany, and each time the war came down, Germany lost very badly, after World War II, it was divided into two out of two countries, almost facing a situation of eternal division, and as for World War I, Germany's losses were very huge, and even reached the limit of the footsteps, on June 28, 1919, the defeated country of Germany and the Allies after 6 months of tug-of-war negotiations, finally signed the Treaty of Versailles, Germany, on the other hand, lost all of its overseas colonies and lost 13.5 percent of its territory.
Among them, North Schleswig was assigned to Denmark after a referendum, Germany recognized the independence of Poland, gave them the coastline and returned the territory that originally belonged to them, including West Prussia, Posen Province, Silesia was divided into Czechoslovakia, and the industrial heart of the Ruhr Industrial Park was jointly occupied by the French and Belgian armies, Germany's biggest loss was Austria, Germany recognized Austria's independence, and could never merge with him, in addition, Germany will also pay a large amount of huge military expenses, not to have an air force, The standing army of the army can not exceed one hundred thousand people, can not have tanks and heavy artillery ...
These burdens weighed heavily on the Germans, which made them feel the pressure, but the Germans, who had learned the lessons of the First World War, had less and less territory, so why did they insist on waging war? This has a lot to do with historical factors. At the beginning of the 18th century, Prussia in Germany had risen, and Austria competed for the ultimate hegemony of Germany, and by the 19th century, the Holy Roman Empire had disintegrated and the establishment of a modern nation-state was more urgent, so at the Vienna Conference in 1815, the German Confederation was established, and when the German Revolution broke out in 1848, Prussia became the dominant force leading Germany, and under the leadership of Prussian Prime Minister Bismarck, it gradually became stronger and set its sights on the world.
At this time, the world was about to be divided up by the old powers such as Britain and France, so in the eyes of the Germans, their living space was further oppressed, so it was not surprising that they, as a new imperialist country, waged war for interests. Before World War I, in 1864, Prussia united with Austria to defeat Denmark, taking away the land occupied by Denmark in the north, in 1870, Prussia launched the Franco-Prussian War, defeated France, and many of the southern German confederations broke away from French rule, and by 1871, Germany was officially unified and established the German Empire, so the Germans' fanatical love for land was further revealed with huge profits.
Readers who have studied the history of the First World War know that this is nothing more than a war in which the great powers divide their interests, there is no justice in the war to speak of, although Germany is a loser, many of them are unable to accept this result, after the First World War, Germany, the more it loses its land, the more it wants to win back.
Under the pressure of Britain and France and other countries, nationalism gradually rose, and the workers in the Ruhr industrial area also went on strike specifically against the French occupation forces, which resulted in brutal repression, which, coupled with the tolerance of the German Weimar Republic to the outside world, made the German people more and more dissatisfied, and in the 1930s, the global Depression broke out, so it is not surprising that Hitler was able to take his extreme doctrine and win the votes of most Germans.