If you want to evaluate the worst post-00s in history, it may be Europe in the 19th century. They experienced "World War I" at the age of 20, and participated in "World War II" at the age of 40, and people who have experienced nine deaths are thinking, "World War I" is cruel enough, why fight a second time?
The Pressure of Versailles
On October 29, 1918, German sailors, extremely disappointed by Germany's surrender, declared an uprising, forcing Kaiser Wilhelm II to announce his abdication. When the war was over, peace returned to Germany, but in the eyes of the Germans, the Treaty of Versailles was still in the shadows, and life in the defeated countries was too difficult.
First, the reparations for the cession of land, the two german provinces were seceded by France, and the compensation for France's military expenditure alone was as high as 130 billion Deutsche Marks; it was accompanied by a wave of unemployment that swept the country, and one-third of Germany's jobs ceased to exist. In the first year after the war, the Deutsche Mark had depreciated to more than the cost of printing, and the denomination of a single banknote reached 100 trillion. The whole country was in turmoil, and the German capitalists continued to exploit the workers after the war. Unemployed young people wandered around, the socialist movement was raging, and gradually the victorious countries such as Britain, France, and the United States could not look at it anymore.
The first to be shot was France, through the "Dawes Economic Revitalization Plan", France returned the German heavy industrial area "Ruhr Area" and restored the German mining rights; secondly, the United Kingdom and the United States extended the reparations period, and the United States took the initiative to invest 200 million US dollars to open the German investment market to the United States. The Treaty of Versailles was almost null and void by this point, and it had been less than five years since the end of the First World War.
Global financial crisis
By 1926, Germany's industrial output had once again jumped to the top of Europe, and the domestic market was booming. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, and only three years passed. The United States was plunged into a financial crisis triggered by Black Tuesday, and the whole country was in a depression. In order to maintain domestic financial stability, the United States began to pursue a conservative economic policy and stopped doing business with Germany. The products of the German factory are piled up and released, and the factory capital chain continues to break. The German capitalists saw that this was still worth it? Immediately came up with a solution: layoffs.
Time seemed to be going backwards, and in 1933, there were more than 5 million unemployed people in Germany, and thousands of people starved to death. In the face of boiling public resentment, the Second German Republic was indifferent, President Hindenburg was helpless in the face of economic difficulties, and the popular support for party members was getting lower and lower. As a result, the Socialist Workers' Party seized the opportunity to raise its head, and yes, they were called "Nazi Party" by short.
The Nazis called themselves the "Socialist Workers' Party"
Bizarrely, the Nazi Party's initial ideas resembled a socialist model of a "market economy." Advocates direct government intervention in the market, and the method is very simple and crude: government procurement. Which commodity is most effective for reviving the economy? - Arms.
When Hitler came to power in 1933, he ostensibly preached the representation of workers' interests and encouraged all unemployed people to go to the arsenal to find work. Secretly, however, he contacted the local monopoly capitalists and announced that he would unify the European market by means of military aggression and give German enterprises a monopoly position. Thanks to the conspiracy, the contradiction between the German capitalists and the workers was greatly alleviated, and Germany came out of the wave of unemployment in a very short period of time, and the employment rate reached an unprecedented 100%.
However, weapons and ammunition are piled up in warehouses and must be used to sustain production. As the Nazi leader said in his speech to confuse the people: "German Germans are iron men who cannot be defeated." In order to avenge the "Treaty of Versailles", German soldiers enlisted in the army and prepared for battle day and night. In the summer of 1939, people all over the world heard German tanks rumbling in Poland. At this time, it was exactly twenty years since the end of the "First World War".
As the only British "senior executive" who personally experienced the two world wars, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill once commented that "World War II" was only the second half of the war caused by the uneven division of the spoils of "World War I", although he could have avoided it. Germany was divided in two after World War II, and some scholars began to reflect that if there was a constitutional monarchy in Germany, the cruelty of the war might be different. Because the overthrow of the emperor system caused a sudden fragmentation of German culture, under the yin and yang, the german people who were confused in the spiritual world blindly followed another "emperor", a crazy dictator who had no mercy for his people.