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Originally Posted by Jim O
True. But Germany was also wholly demolished by the middle of 1945 and Germans were forced to face the horrors of what had happened under the Nazis both at home and in the occupied territories. They were spared a lot of that in 1919. I think they were ready for change and ready to make a break with their past in 1945. I don't necessarily think that was the case in 1919. This is not to say that things might not have been different had World War I's end been handled differently.
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I think you ignoring a very importand factor, in 1945 it was clear that the German armed forces has been defeated, while in post-WW1 Germany it's was a wide believe that the German army was never defeated at the battelfield, that infact Germany has been stabed in the back by it's inside (Jews and Communists) this legend of the stab in the back cause many German to despise democrasy and the Weimer republic that were identified with the defeat and the "crimes of novembers", obiviously if Germany has been occupied after WW1, the legend that the German army was never defeated wouldn't come into existing.