Between 1914 and 1918 a bunch of inbred cousins thought it would be very meme to make 17 million of their slaves kill each other.

Even though each one of these countries had been scheming their war plans for decades, a group of them decided to blame it all on Germany instead of Serbia.

The most vocal were France and Belgium who wouldn't even let Germany attend the treaty it would be subjected to. They were still assmad that Prussia had defeated Napoleon III a generation earlier and that their current generation couldn't repel the Germans out of France.

They initially demanded reparations of $1 Trillion. Not an exaggeration. More specifically $1.093 Trillion in 2025 dollars. It was reduced to $442 Billion.

An important note to remember, this wasn't just paid by cash, but also paid by raw materials from mines and factories.

There were other stipulations in the treaty. Germany could not have a military greater than 100,000 men, and had to give up many of its field guns and all of its submarines.

France's economy was in the shitter, and shifted its economy to rely on payments from Germany to make ends meet. However with a depletion of a working force and bad economic conditions, sometimes German industrial outputs fell short of the quantities that France was relying on to buffer its own economy.

What was the smartest move for France and Belgium to get more money and raw materials from a country who had no money or raw materials or military?

Germany continued to default on payments. England wondered if they should be allowed time to recover and rebuild their industry so that they could make the payments after a few years.

Even though the German territory which contained their coal had been given to Poland as part of the same treaty, the Allies determined that

Germany was defaulting on their debts in bad faith!

England tried to get everyone to chill out.

But in 1923, knowing that Germany didn't have a military, France and Belgium invaded western Germany in order to force the citizens to work harder faster.

Above: France functioning at its highest IQ

German citizens felt that soldiers pointing guns at them to force them to work was slavery, so they passively resisted, and so France slaughtered 137 of them as a motivational tactic.

And yes, France billed the Central powers, including Bulgaria, for the privilege of being occupied

don't forget to tip your occupiers! (laughs in frog)

The US and UK were able to restructure the debt and gave Germany loans to stabilize it so the payments could be made. France and Belgium left their occupation positions.

Hitler, a combat veteran, watched this entire process so he decided to become the leader of Germany and make it so France and Belgium could never hurt them like this again and he succeeded.

He overplayed his hand and did some other stuff too, but honestly nobody should have cared about what he did to France and Belgium because they suck and they deserved it.

!historychads