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Originally Posted by Ingsoc
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.
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I'm not ignoring that at all. At the end of World War II Germany had been bombed and beaten
at home and all Germans witnessed the retreat, defeat, and destruction of the Wehrmacht and Waffen-SS on the ground and the command of the skies by Allied planes. The Russians, who had been beaten in the first war, had taken and demolished Berlin. This all had to have been significantly more demoralizing than at the end of World War I, where most of Germany was spared any of this and so the populace might still have felt they had not been beaten but rather "stabbed in the back". Remember, the front lines at the time of the armistice that ended the first war were still largely in France and Belgium.
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