> > True but, if the US had also not been involved in WWI, I am wondering if
> > the attitude towards the US would have been different.  Germany was
> > destroyed by the concessions they made during their WWI surrender.  To an
> > extent, I feel like they were out for revenge against all of the countries
> > that put them in that position.
>
> Actually, what happened is that the German goverment continued its
> generous social spending programs after WW I.  Unfortunately the war
> reparations demanded by the Allies pretty much destroyed the German
> economy.  In about 1922 or 1923 the German economy collapsed due to
> rampant (100 percent per DAY) inflation, and with it went the German
> government.  That provided an avenue for Hitler to get into power.

IIRC, Hitler blamed the German government (for the social programs and
other spending habits) and the WWI allies (for the crippling reparations).
Either way, if the US had not been involved, he might not have been so
willing to drag the US into the European conflict.  Then again, his
paranoia might have lead him to do so anyway.  When you deal with leaders
that are not in their right minds, who knows?

I have thought that an odd time in modern history, to have at least three
mentally unstable leaders at the helm of three powers at once... Hitler,
Stalin, and Musolini.  If I did the research, I could probably find other
times that was happening, but that just seemed like a perfect storm there.

Mike

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