Who Started WW2: Treaty of Versailles Part One

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Who started WW2? The short answer is: not Hitler. The more complete answer has been the subject of much debate and many thick books. One such book is Who Started WW2, by Udo Walendy, a German author born in 1927.

The Wikipedia entry on Walendy has this interesting tidbit of information that clearly illustrates the unjust censorship of contrary positions to the official WW2 narrative. Keep in mind that Walendy’s book is an academic study of the creation of the Second World War and contains no Holocaust denial:

As early as 1964 he published his own book, Wahrheit für Deutschland – Die Schuldfrage des Zweiten Weltkriegs^[2] (Truth for Germany – The Question of Guilt for the Second World War), which in 1979 was listed by Germany’s Federal Department for Media Harmful to Young Persons as material that could not be publicly advertised or given to young readers, due to the version it presented of the events that led to World War II. This restriction was lifted in 1994, after a long legal battle, on the grounds that Walendy’s constitutional rights had been violated, since the federal constitutional court ruled that even a supposedly biased representation could be defended as an academic work. A renewed attempt to have the work listed was abandoned in 2001 due to a negative assessment of the chances of success in the event of another court case.

Walendy’s book is not available on archive.org (but it can be purchased here), so follow me in this series where I will take nearly 500 pages of text and answer the question of who started WW2 as concisely as I can.

As Germar Rudolf points out in the introduction to the book, WW2 can not be fully understood unless one understands WW1. He says that WW2 is a continuation of WW1, a 30-year war against the Germans. In the introduction Rudolf states:

In late 1918, after the U.S. had proposed a reasonable basis for peace negotiations- US President Wilson’s 14 points- and after all powers involved had agreed upon it, Germany surrendered. But after the Germans had laid down their weapons, the other powers did not follow suit, as the armistice had provided. Quite to the contrary: The cease-fire agreement was repudiated and replaced with the plunder and rape of Germany in what is called the “Treaty of Versailles.”

The average person might have nebulous ideas about the Treaty of Versailles (ToV), but the extent to which it carved up Germany might still not be entirely public knowledge. This makes it much easier for them to accept that Hitler started war with Europe in order to take it over. Even though the idea of a madman Hitler is demonstrably incorrect, this is what the winning governments of WW2 want you to believe. Casting Hitler as an evil man hellbent on taking over the world makes it easier for the populace to swallow the story about 6 million Jews being murdered in inhumane and horrific ways. It also makes it easier for the Allies to present themselves as the good guys whose actions were justified in the fight against the evil Nazis.

Back to the ToV. How could it be accused of causing the rape of Germany as Rudolph suggested?

Much like the accusations of genocide made against Germany after WW2, after WW1 Germany was seated with responsibility for the war without any chance to properly defend themselves. War can never be entirely blamed on one side. Doing so only serves to shield the victors from culpability of their own immoral actions.

Because Germany was made to be the scapegoat this meant that on top of Germany being publicly despised for all the death an destruction the war caused, she would also be forced to pay reparations. Germany ended shelling out 33 billion dollars in 1919’s money. That amount is worth about 585 billion today.

Next on the list of terribly unjust ToV conditions is the loss of land, and the people living on that land. This amounted to 13 percent of its European territory (more than 27,000 square miles) and one-tenth of its population (between 6.5 and 7 million people). For reference, there are about 7 million people living in Tennessee today. The Versailles Treaty forced Germany to give up territory to Belgium, Czechoslovakia, and Poland, return Alsace-Lorraine to France and cede all of its overseas colonies in China, the Pacific, and Africa to the Allied nations. Germany was carved up like a Thanksgiving turkey and passed around the table. See the image below for visual representation of the European land that Germany had forcibly taken away from them.

Military limitations were also imposed upon Germany. The German army was restricted to 100,000 men; the general staff was eliminated; the manufacture of armored cars, tanks, submarines, airplanes, and poison gas was forbidden; and only a small number of specified factories could make weapons or munitions. This meant that Germany was no longer able to defend herself.

The ToV is almost 200 pages long, so I cannot go over everything it entails. There is a PDF of the document here if you would like to read it for yourself. As I was scanning through it I randomly found this bit where it says that the Allied governments and Associated Powers could use German ports like they were their own.

You may be thinking that this just sounds like Europe’s legacy of fighting each other for power. However, the two World Wars of the 20th century had a factor that was not as prevalent as the power struggles of centuries past. This factor was Jewish power and influence. Continue to part two where I discuss this part of history that many parties would like to be hidden.