Re: Appeasement

Dave Smith wrote:

It is not nonsense at all. The Germans had not been beaten on the
battlefield

Ludendorff would disagree with you. That's why he demanded that the German government seek an armistice in October.

and felt that they had been stabbed in the back.

Any back-stabbing was done by Ludendorff and Hindenburg, who arranged for the installation of a civilian government to take the blame instead of themselves.

and they resented being the
only country forced to disarm.

All of the defeated powers were forced to disarm. Austria was limited to 30,000 troops; Hungary to 35,000; Bulgaria to 20,000.

Germany's coalition government was torn about signing.

They also realized that they had no choice ultimately - they couldn't go back to war.

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