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Fang66 
What you said above is true but the history of the first third of the 20th century shouldn't be slanted by things that came later. Until the mid 30s there was nothing more negative about Germany than most or all other European countries. They lost WWI does that make them any worse than the winners? In some ways it's actually a positive because one of the reasons that they lost was because the German people became sick of the slaughter earlier than those on the other team.
well, on the one hand you are probably right, it would be hard to paint most european countries well in terms of the first decades of the 20th century, but I would argue that Germany really doesn't come off well. and, I agree with you, some of the best art and literature in the world, and some of the best science and engineering in teh world came out of germany in the early 20th century. but, most of those writters, scientists, artists and philosophers were persecuted by their own people. germany descended into a horrible civil war for most of the 20's - so if you figure that Germany was going through an unpleasant militarization of the culture in the 00's, and then a horrible world war in the teens, and then a brutal civil war in the 20's, and then nazism in the 30's, what really do you haved that shows germany in a positive light in these years, aside from individuals that were persecuted by thier country men and their governments?
