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I'm at odds with only one thing that Jim Ace says. I have to disagree with him when he says the IGAF fought for the "wrong cause". I will agree that they fought for a nation that lost the war. But no one knows what the "wrong cause" is until the fighting is over. The winner is always right and the loser has always fought for the "wrong cause".
There were many legitimate reasons why Germany waged an agressive war and one of the biggest was that every other European country had a big jump on aggressively colonizing the world and Germany wanted to get its dibs in as well.
Of course most of Europe was not at all happy with a unified Germany and feared it as an equal paricipant in the rape, uh ... I mean colonization of underdeveloped nations and they did what ever they could to prevent the the unification of the German People under one nation.
Let's not pretend that all the European Nations and even the US were saints and only the Germans were bad guys fighting for a wrong cause. Everyone was fighting to protect their own personal interests. It wasn't until the Germans lost that their cause became "wrong" and everyone else became saints.
Tobias
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