Okay, first off, this is the writing of a German citizen, but I'm sure to have some bias from my knowledge from class, so here's a best attempt.
What is the Weimar doing?! what has happened to the Fatherland? These criminal, in November...these November Criminals!... have destroyed our once beautiful reich, and now our country is at the whim of the Allies. Why would the Weimar sign the Treaty of Versailles? We are not the guilty ones for the beginning of the war! We were forced by the threat made by France's treaty with those filthy Russians (Belk)! And now we must pay billions of marks to those criminals? Our proud military must be slashed, down to a mere 100,000 soldeirs as well? This is madness! And now our empire has been taken from us, and devied up into these puny countries, and our standing in the world gets shredded with every acre of land that we lose. Friedrich should never have agreed to such a treaty, and he has condemned his people to suffer by doing so. He had not yet lost the war, and yet he makes us quit(Belk)? Has he no faith in his brave soldiers? We could have valiantly fought, and won this war! Russia had just dropped even! Weimar government could not have handled this war any worse. I am all for democracy, but I do not want to be led by the weak.
And now with the economy in the drain, our country has even more problems. We lost all our workers (Belk Notes) thanks to war deaths and injuries. And our most productive stakes of land have been taken from us thanks to this "treaty" (Belk). Our government has left us no way recover our capital. And the inflation we suffer from the over use of currency (Belk) has cut our marks to a third of their old value! We can't get people to trade with us when our money is worth the same as a pile of, well you know, times are bad. It's not just that we have to pay back these war reparations, but on top of that, we're left with no way to raise the money to do so. Thanks to our Wiemar gaovernment, this treaty is going to destroy our economy, and our once proud nation. Not to mention our infrastructure will have to change with how focused we were on the war for the past few years, which will make our current economy that much more perilous.
Thanks to Wiemar government, and their signing of the treaty of Versailles, we have lost all our most precious lands (Belk). Alsaise-Lorraine, which we fought the French so determinedly for (Belk), has now been handed back, what of the soldiers that died in that war? Does their sacrifice mean nothing to the Reich? And the land we won from Russia has been turned into the useless countries, like Poland and Czechoslovakia. Our empire has been minimized, even our African territories have been taken (Belk). We must struggle now to stay on the map, when before the nation had begun to spread through Europe. The Wiemar has sent our troops, or what we have left of them at least, to the borders to keep us from shrinking anymore. But what of the capital? Who will protect the government? With such turmoil from the loss of this war, it does not seem wise to leave the leader unprotected.
Although our democracy is new, this is too important of a matter for excuses to be allowed. The government will either make better decisions, or someone stronger will take their place.
Ian, from what I've read, you seem to be in total disagreement with the Weimar government and their decisions. You make good points when you point out the land that was lost from the Treaty of Versailles, and the economic problems Germany had been faced with. I like how you ended your post with a very strong post. You basically take everything that the weimar government has done, and say that it was all in vain. I have never taken the weimar government and their decisions and looked at it in that perspective. Not only do you take their decisions and show the weak and unwise side of it, but you end your post by saying that it was all in vain. Everything that the soldiers had fought for was in vain. Not only did the people not receive anything from the war and its outcome, but the soldiers, dead or alive, received no glory for their actions and brave fighting. Everything that they did was for a cause that was falsly advertized and was promised to put Germany as a superpower. Now they sit in debt, with a great loss.
ReplyDeleteBut can you not agree it was a situation of "a rock and a hard place". What were they to do? If on one hand they had refused the treaty and kept fighting then we were sure to be over run with foreign powers. On the other they conceded and this has put us to the point of internal desolation. With every act of selfishness and blind pride there is compensation and consequences. What were they to do? I ask you for a solution comrade if you are so against them.
ReplyDelete(K besides being a citizen as in the above post I like your point of view and opinions.)
(I'll see your irate citizen and raise you a loyalist)
ReplyDeleteIt is citizens like you that make me grieve for the lost greatness of Germany. Do you not see the opportunity the wise Weimar Leadership has given us? The world is content with what they have taken from us when they could have taken much more. The Weimar has no intention of letting our honour remain stained, this is why they saw it fit to preserve our forces. We were forced back, and lost all of the land we had just gained, and yet you call them traitors? No, we should praise them for their foresight! Our army was allowed to return in one piece, and we did not have to suffer the indignity of foreign soldiers on our lands...surely they are familiar with the British propaganda claiming horrors visited on those in Belgium, and perhaps even those in Belgium believe those lies. Do you wish to have suffering visited upon our citizens? We got off much lighter than we might have, we should take advantage of our position. We lost much land in the trade, but we still own some. We should focus not on what we have lost, but on what we had. Naysayers like you will only bring pain, suffering, and instability to our country.