Why was Germany so keen to have WW2 after the horrors of WW1?
There were several reasons. Reaction to the Great Depression which hit Germany hard, resentment at the huge costs involved with reparations payments forced on Germany by the Allies were two of them. Hitler’s megalomania helped as well. One less often recognised component of the German national psyche was the fact that Germany escaped WW1. Yes, she lost hundreds of thousands killed and even more wounded but the war was fought in France and Belgium. French towns were shelled almost to oblivion, German towns were not. French and Belgian citizens were killed in their thousands, German civilians were not. France and Flanders burned, Germany escaped scot-free in that regard. When WW2 came and it was German towns burning, German cities levelled to the ground, German citizens dying by the thousand, German women being raped by the Ruskis, German infrastructure destroyed there was a new found hated of war in Germany. Invading other countries is fun, being invaded is not fun. Had the Germans foun
