In 200 years our present age will be called "The Age of The Liars" or "The Age of Deception". The deception of the German guilt on WWI is to draw the attention away from the fact that the signature under the "Crime of Versailles", which was no treaty at all, was oppressed by a genocide on 900.000 German civilians. That genocide was maintained after the armistice had been signed and not stopped until the new German government had signed the shameful paper.
THat the Germans had to pay "reparations" to the perpetrator, had to render themselves defenseless and to hand over 13% of their territory and 20% of the population to the mass murderer had caused WWII. Here comes problem Nr.II: The claims that the "Crime of Versailles" never was a treaty and the situation created by it had to be revised was a legitimate claim by all modern standards of ethics and laws of nations. However instead of revision the main perpetrator of 1919, the British Empire, chose war.
For dragging the USA into WWI they had promised Palestine to the Zionists in 1917, expressed in the Balfour declaration. Without this help they were about to loose WWI. However Palestine at that time was property of the Ottoman Empire, which had to be destroyed too after WWI (and interestingly is accused of genocide today).
Revising this illegal act would have uncovered the complete criminal British plot. Like any super power having grown up in colonialism the British Empire chose another war. To cover all those activities we are made today to believe in German dreams of conquering the world and heretic love of warfare among the Germans.
That the former usufructuary of the Balfour declaration presently is preparing another war is a scandal beyond imagination.
LOL "Revising my history book". I think I sense the problem here LOL So, the Austrohungarian empire started it by getting their Archduke killed? The Austro-hungarian empire did begin the first rumblings but Germany ran to their aid.
At the very beginning the German army carried out a modified version of the Schlieffen Plan, designed to quickly attack France through neutral Belgium before turning southwards to encircle the French army on the German border. The German invaders treated any resistance they encountered such as sabotaging rail lines, as illegal and immoral, and shot the offenders and burned buildings in retaliation. The German army executed over 6,500 French and Belgian civilians between August and November 1914, usually in near-random large-scale shootings of civilians ordered by junior German officers.
The German Army destroyed 15,000-20,000 buildings most famously the university library at Louvain and generated a refugee wave of over a million people. If Germany had stayed out, there would have been no world war but they rush to declare war and the viciousness with which they waged it, caused the allies...the victors...to punish Germany and of course, that led to WW2. Besides, Germany signed the treated and admitted their responsibility AND they didn't pay a single sent after 1931.
Nothing. So they hardly paid for it. They made payments for around 10 years and that was it.
The Austrohungarian empire ceased to exist and became Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Yugoslavia. New nations who were not responsible for the war as they were infant nations. Germany still existed and Germany signed the treaty of Versailles.
However, it is probably safe to say that wartime propaganda most likely played into the fact that Germany was dealt with so harshly.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.