After the First World War, Germany, as a defeated country, was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles, which restricted Germany in all aspects from the military to the state system, from territory to industrial production.
And Germany needs to compensate 226 billion marks, the mainland was cut off one-eighth of the population and land, to know that although Germany announced its surrender in world war I, but militarily there is still a war force, the German military has never considered Germany to be defeated, but should be called peace.
In the face of this humiliating treaty, the German people have always held a fire in their hearts, and an emotion called "revenge" is slowly accumulating in the hearts of Germans.
On what basis did Germany rise and single out the world?
As mentioned earlier, Germany's defeat in World War I was not that the army could not defeat others, on the contrary, the Germans beat up the Russian army on the eastern front, and the British and French allies on the western front could only shrink the defense, and the fundamental reason for the germans' final surrender was the exhaustion of domestic resources, from grain to industrial raw materials.
Coupled with the agitation of the capitalists, social unrest, the outbreak of revolutionary uprisings, the forced abdication of The German Kaiser Wilhelm and exile, Germany had no choice but to declare unconditional surrender.
On the surface, Britain and France are victorious countries, France is to recover the homeland, get a large number of colonies and reparations, but in fact, Britain and France are also almost out of the light, taking France as an example, the entire World War I soldier casualties exceeded 1.38 million, in addition to 400,000 civilian deaths, more than 4.3 million soldiers and civilians were injured, the number of soldiers in need of financial pensions exceeded 6 million, to know that the French population at that time was only 40 million, and this casualty ratio accounted for almost 15% of the total population of the country.
Britain's weaker fighting power and greater losses, during the First World War, there were 6 million lobster soldiers, the death toll exceeded 720,000, the death rate of nobles was as high as 45%, which was three times that of civilians, and more than 20 nobles, 49 noble heirs of the upper house and more nobles were killed.
Therefore, Britain and France resented the war from the bottom up, and because they opposed the war and promised peace, the cabinet had to change its foreign strategy, and "appeasement" prevailed.
In addition, after the war, Europe almost invariably became a debtor country, especially Germany, and by the end of 1929, Germany's debt to foreign banks had reached 31 million marks, which was roughly equivalent to one-third of Germany's gross national product at that time. If germany's compensation needs to be paid are also taken into account, the ratio of Germany's external debt to gross national product would be a staggering 86 percent.
As for why countries should borrow from Germany, The Economist has commented on this: "The chain formed between the Entente and Germany binds the two together through a 'grand structure of cross-governmental obligations'". The Allied governments also recognized this borrowing, believing that it would stabilize the Weimar Republic.
As the largest creditor country, American capitalists, in order to protect their largest creditors from the ability to repay, have introduced a number of policies to support construction in Germany.
Economically, just one "Dawes Project" made Germany 32.6 billion marks in loans, 70% of which were American capital, while Germany paid only 11.4 billion marks in war reparations during this period, which can be said that American capital played an important role in the rise of Germany after the war.
In November 1933, a pamphlet published in the Netherlands recorded that before and after Hitler came to power, Ford, Rockefeller and other American consortiums provided Hitler with up to $32 million in funding. Although the book was soon banned, it was widely believed that there was a cooperative relationship between Wall Street and the Nazis.
Militarily, in 1933 the U.S. arms company trusted DuPont to even sell aircraft engines and fighter jets to Germany. Between 1933 and 1939, more than 60 American companies cooperated with German military companies, which provided Germany with technologies ranging from ceramics and lubricants to automobiles, airplanes, and tanks.
In terms of resources, the United States provided Germany with its much-needed natural resources and strategic materials such as oil, non-ferrous metals, iron ore, for example, Alcoa sold 60% of the aluminum it produced to the Third Reich.
Germany not only retained its own industry on credit, but also improved its military technology, and after Hitler came to power, it took over foreign capital one after another, expelled non-German capitalists at home and abroad, and completed the primitive accumulation of war funds.
While restoring the economy and arming the army, Germany succeeded in joining the League of Nations in 1925, legally achieving equal opportunities for all countries, which made the German nation's self-confidence high and the people more trusted hitler's government.
Holding the hearts and minds of the people and advanced technology plus The first military industry in Europe, Britain and France were lying dead at this time, the Soviet Union and themselves had just divided Poland, signed the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" when the United States did not participate in the war, it was not polite to say that Germany had enough chips in its hands to sweep through all of Western Europe.
If the German chariot had timely peace talks after bulldozing France, connected the Mediterranean Sea with the Suez Canal, and then grasped the lifeblood of all countries - oil, then today's world hegemon may have to change one, but this chariot was not equipped with brakes at the beginning