The war indemnity imposed on the Weimar Republic was no greater, per capita and priced against gold, than the indemnity the new German Empire imposed on France after the Franco-Prussian War.
But the French whined a lot less than the Germans.
The Kaiser sent Lenin to Czarist Russia.
The Germans were making secret war development deals with Soviet Russia before the Versailles Treaty was drafted.
Pretty much, Hitler would not have been possible without the secret re-armament program of Weimar.
And then came Hitler, who could have had peace with the West if he had just controlled himself. Germany only had about 500K Jews (compared to 3.5M in Poland and the 3M in Russia, after the latter partitioned Poland-Lithuania). That is almost a rounding error. If he had just ghettoized them and offered them a cash bounty to get the hell out of Germany, it would have ended up low on the List of Dick Moves by Western Nations against the Jews.
Stalin's price to ally against Germany was Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Poland and Finland. The West refused to pay and Hitler knew it, even as the West was giving him 90% of everything he asked for.
So: the Germans were always scumbags, and Hitler made it worse.
That's a lie.
And then came Hitler, who could have had peace with the West if he had just controlled himself. Germany only had about 500K Jews (compared to 3.5M in Poland and the 3M in Russia, after the latter partitioned Poland-Lithuania). That is almost a rounding error. If he had just ghettoized them and offered them a cash bounty to get the hell out of Germany, it would have ended up low on the List of Dick Moves by Western Nations against the Jews.
Stalin's price to ally against Germany was Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and parts of Poland and Finland. The West refused to pay and Hitler knew it, even as the West was giving him 90% of everything he asked for.
So: the Germans were always scumbags, and Hitler made it worse.