As a "small country," Germany was a trendsetter in the 20 th century, single-handedly provoking two world wars, and even attempting to unify Europe and achieve its grand cause.
The madness of Germany is the madness of the German people from the top down, not only Hitler is the devil of the war, but the German people are also terrifying to the world!
In order to support the war, the German people even lost their humanity! More than 400,000 people were sterilized spontaneously in support of the war effort, and even disabled children were killed by their own hands by their parents, reducing the burden on the country.
Why, then, did Germany develop into such a state of madness, and on what basis did it start the war?
Germany's rapid rise
Historically, the Germanic people were full of warlike genes, and when the industrial revolution began in European countries, the Germanic people were still busy fleeing from the east and west, plundering the land.
When Britain, France and other European countries, with the invention of the steam engine in the Industrial Revolution, began to seize colonies around the world and establish an empire on which the sun never sets, Germany had just completed reunification, and Germany's development at this time had lagged behind the average level of Europe.
At this time, Germany was completely backward in Europe, but Germany was able to achieve the industrial revolution in a very short period of time, and developed into a world-class power at that time, instigating World War I, so how did Germany do it?
This is mainly due to four factors, including Germany's politics, military, science and technology, and education.
In terms of politics, after the reunification of the German government, it quickly changed its policy of recklessness of military force to the direction of economic development, and provided a large amount of preferential policy and economic assistance to its factories and industries.
At the same time, Germany also quickly caught up with Britain and France, opened the Age of Discovery, and developed German colonies.
But the helpless thing is that at that time, most of the world was colonized by Britain, France, Portugal, Spain and other countries, and Germany could only pick up people's teeth!
In terms of education, Germany has spent a lot of money to train the young generation of Germany, which made it have more than 10 million students who have undergone compulsory education in the early 20th century, and high-knowledge talents are one of Germany's most important assets, which has played a vital role in the enhancement of Germany's scientific and technological and military strength.
In the 14 years between the 20th century and the outbreak of the First World War, Germany produced 18 Nobel Prize winners, the most in the world during the same period.
Germany has become the most technologically advanced country in the world, which has further enhanced Germany's comprehensive national strength.
Although Germany picked up its talents in the first industrial revolution, the Germans have become the main force in the second industrial revolution. Inventions such as engines and internal combustion engines that changed the development pattern of the world were all made by Germans.
On the eve of World War I, Germany was the most powerful industrial power in Europe, second only to the United States. With an annual industrial output of 15.7% of the world's, Germany is the industrial center of Europe.
The German people are even more affluent, with a staggering $12 billion in gross national income, ranking behind the United States.
In terms of military strength, Germany was world-class at that time.
Germany's army, navy, and air force are leading the world in an all-round way, and in order to instigate a war, Germany did not hesitate to spend more than 160 billion marks and mobilize 5 million people to participate in the war and stir up the situation in Europe!
However, the outbreak of World War I did not give Germany what it wanted, but made it face serious land cession and war reparations!
The life of the German people can be described as heaven and hell, but it is in the difficult post-war environment that Germany has miraculously re-emerged!
So how did Germany rise rapidly before World War II?
Germany's frantic arms race before World War II
Germany's ambitious World War ended in a dismal defeat, and Germany's 5 million troops were exhausted, in order to prevent Germany from planning war again, the Allies limited the size of the German army to 100,000!
In addition to military restrictions, Germany's territory and territory were also divided by the victorious powers! The once prosperous German cities on the other side of the Rhine are now occupied by the Allied armies.
In addition, the German economy is facing a collapse, and there is serious inflation in the country!
Germany suffered heavy losses in the course of World War I, but a large number of military relatives still need pensions to ensure daily life, and the German government has no choice but to continue to print money, which leads to hyperinflation.
After the First World War, the value of the mark continued to depreciate, even to the point where it took 500,000 marks to be able to buy a piece of bread!
In addition, Germany is also trying to develop post-war reconstruction and restart the industrial system. But in the face of the widespread financial crisis in society, Germany had to borrow money from the Jews at home in order to obtain financial funds!
Although the Jews were a large group in Germany, they had a strong sense of national identity, had no sense of belonging to Germany, and did not contribute to Germany during the First World War.
Moreover, the Jews were born with superhuman intelligence and a strong business mind, so that even as the German economy collapsed, the Jews remained rich.
The Jewish community relied on lending money to live in luxury, creating a serious class barrier with the ordinary German people, causing dissatisfaction in the hearts of the German people!
It was in this situation of class antagonism at home and the restrictions of foreign blockades that Hitler came to the fore. He blamed much of Germany's current economic woes on Jewish lending, and launched a vigorous campaign of excavations against Jews.
The advent of Hitler and the Nazi organizations diverted the internal contradictions of the German people, gave the German people a vent point for dissatisfaction, and carried out mass murder of Jews.
And in order to raise reserves for future military power, Hitler also set up a crazy race breeding program.
Its core is to select high-quality genes, establish breeding farms, and cultivate high-quality genes of Germanic people.
In addition, Hitler brainwashed the German people, reawakened the German people's belligerent consciousness, and redistributed financial funds.
One of the most important aspects of Hitler's redistribution of financial funds was to reduce the expenditure of social welfare funds and instead use the money saved up for military preparations.
As one of the countries with the most complete social welfare at that time, Germany spent more than 1 billion marks on the disabled and the disabled.
In contrast, at that time, Germany spent only 713 million marks on local governance, and in order to divert conflicts and raise military funds, Hitler launched a massive demographic optimization campaign in Germany, one of the most important of which was the humane execution of the disabled.
In addition, Hitler bribed doctors to exaggerate the survival rate of children with disabilities, and encouraged young people to participate in economic construction and give up their reproductive rights.
Under the advocacy of Hitler's series of measures, more than 84,000 people in Germany spontaneously applied for sterilization in 1934, and this figure reached its peak in 1935, with more than 400,000 Germans applying for sterilization.
In order to save social resources, more than 90% of the parents of disabled children have carried out humane euthanasia for their children under the influence of public opinion.
The doctors and nurses who were supposed to save lives were also brainwashed by Hitler, lost their humanity, and fell from a life-saving angel to an executioner.
Under Hitler's demographic optimization policy, more than 200,000 disabled children lost their lives, but they still had to raise their right hands and shout the Führer's name before they died.
Despite Hitler's extreme methods, they improved the German economy, which eventually led to the outbreak of World War II, which affected more families.
The dismal end of World War II once again plunged Germany into the vortex of war reparations. So how did the German economy take off after World War II and the national conditions improved rapidly?
The continued impact of Germany's sterilization policy and the post-war economic recovery
Hitler's madness plunged Germany into a real whirlpool, and the economy, which had been restored after World War I, was depleted as World War II progressed, and a large number of German soldiers died of wounds in the war, and the German people fell into an atmosphere of unprecedented depression.
After World War II, Germany was depressed in all walks of life. Even a large number of men and women of working age were voluntarily sterilized in order to cope with Hitler's policy of intensifying production, and now their husbands have been killed in the battlefield, leaving only a large number of young women alone.
The mass loss of male lives and the existence of sterilization policies have led to a sharp decline in Germany's fertility rate, a scarcity of industrial labor, and a difficult recovery of the German industrial system.
In order to reverse the economic decline, Germany has carried out a huge economic reform, the most important of which is to vigorously develop the foreign trade industry and use the cheap labor of other countries to promote the development of the German economy.
Although Germany was a defeated country in the war, Germany's scientific and technological and industrial level was far ahead of other countries, and even in the Cold War competition between the United States and the Soviet Union, German scientists were behind the invention of a large number of military scientific and technological products.
In addition to vigorously developing the foreign trade economy, the disregard of European countries for Germany is also one of the important help to promote the recovery of the German economy.
Thanks to the help of neighboring countries and the development of foreign trade industries, Germany's economy recovered rapidly after World War II, and even reached the level of the world's top for a time.
However, the German sterilization policy caused a shortage of young people in Germany and faced a severe aging population, all of which were the bitter fruits of the wrong policies, and the bad influence of Hitler's policies continued.
epilogue
Before World War II, in order to transfer domestic contradictions and enhance comprehensive national strength, Germany planned World War II, implemented a strict sterilization policy at home, and adopted a tragic euthanasia policy for disabled children.
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