Comments on: Germany, 1923 http://www.mcgees.org/2008/03/02/germany-1923/ Website of Joshua McGee Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:05:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: Joshua <i>(Site Owner)</i> http://www.mcgees.org/2008/03/02/germany-1923/#comment-45659 Joshua (Site Owner) Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:32:28 +0000 http://www.mcgees.org/2008/03/02/germany-1923/#comment-45659 Wow, I <i>really</i> messed up the HTML in that post. Sorry about that. Should be fixed now. Wow, I really messed up the HTML in that post.  Sorry about that.

Should be fixed now.

]]> By: Bob Mike http://www.mcgees.org/2008/03/02/germany-1923/#comment-45658 Bob Mike Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:27:15 +0000 http://www.mcgees.org/2008/03/02/germany-1923/#comment-45658 The point, I think, was to utterly destroy the German economy and leave the nation completely destitute. Which, when you look at the next decade or so, is precisely what happened. Apparently, the notion of "hard war, soft peace" hadn't really taken hold at that point. Oops. There's a delicate art to kicking a dog hard enough that it stays down but not so hard that it doesn't go crazy and maul you. German dogs, it turns out, don't take well to being kicked. The point, I think, was to utterly destroy the German economy and leave the nation completely destitute. Which, when you look at the next decade or so, is precisely what happened. Apparently, the notion of “hard war, soft peace” hadn’t really taken hold at that point. Oops.

There’s a delicate art to kicking a dog hard enough that it stays down but not so hard that it doesn’t go crazy and maul you. German dogs, it turns out, don’t take well to being kicked.

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