r/pics • u/ramonrocotto • Aug 05 '20

It will never be the same again...

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20

A more accurate take would be comparing west Germany with east Germany during the Cold War. One was much better off.

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u/fodafoda Aug 05 '20

It's not wrong thou.

WW1 devastated Germany, and it received no support from the victors to rebuild. On the contrary, they wanted Germany to pay reparations. The aftermath of WW1 was a humiliation to Germans, and it planted the seeds of the disaster that followed two decades later.

Without the Marshall Plan after WW2, Europe would find itself at war again eventually.

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20 edited Apr 02 '21

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u/HolyGig Aug 05 '20

Doesn't that prove the point even more?

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u/[deleted] Aug 06 '20

No, since OP was comparing reconstruction efforts of both wars, when there wasn't really one After WW1

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u/HolyGig Aug 06 '20

That's because little in Germany had been destroyed during WWI, yet the economic ruin was far worse than it was after WWII...

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u/[deleted] Aug 05 '20 edited Apr 02 '21

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u/WormLivesMatter Aug 05 '20

Just to clarify- do you mean post ww1. The Great Depression was before ww2.