
Hi OP, one thing that is overlooked was Woodrow Wilson. He was a PHD as President and did things on his own without committees. Europe took advantage of this throwing bureaucrats at him. He was ill one day and that was the day of the treaty of Versailles. France and England jammed what they wanted. When people become destitute, it ushers in extremists later on. France and England didn’t care.
But either way, the juxtaposition i am referring to is, I’m sure many of the German commoners did not want to go to war again in any way but they vehemently disagreed with the treaty of Versailles and its complete and utter accusation of Germany being the driving force of WW1 so that dichotomy of belief is a juxtaposition imo and hitler used that hesitancy to pick a lane as his motive to take power and begin his rule
Hold on, we don’t clown on people who come here in good faith, even if their analysis doesn’t add up neatly. As for the subject…the German population obviously was not a monolith, so you had people who felt all sorts of different things. That being said, militaristic tendencies were definitely still widespread, along with war weariness. Both existed, often at the same time. German WW1 vets were literally shooting each other and beating each other up in the streets over monarchism vs socialism.