Armistice Day

[Rev. Rye]

Imagine how much worse it would have been for those Germans who actually lived through the war and had to pick up the pieces, to realise that, yes, their side were unequivocally the baddies,

They were only the baddies because they lost.  If they had won there would be a statue of Hitler in every square in Europe and the church would have made him a saint.

This is the lesson that a close reading of history gives us.

Yes, and that's why they had to have that reckoning then. And this time, the Allies made it damn clear that they couldn't go around thinking that Germany was more sinned against than sinned. This time around, they didn't just ask them for reparations so onerous that they tanked the economy twice in six years, they confronted them with the consequences of their inaction and unyielding faith in the Reich.