It's also conceivable that you are a member of a neo-Nazi organization and have a biased opinion of the WW2 German state.

I don't believe my father or any of my uncles who served in that particular war would agree with your assessment. Nor would my mother and aunts who contributed to the war effort manufacturing aircraft, walkie talkies, and other needed supplies.

We can argue the treaty of Versailles until the cows come home. BUT...

In the final analysis, it was Hitler's lust for "Lebensraum" that kicked off the whole shebang on September 1, 1939 when he invaded Poland.

The agressor is always at fault. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.

My dad was less aggravated at the Germans because he fought in the Pacific theater. His ire was directed toward the Japanese. My mother hated the Germans until the day she died because she lost friends in that war.

Never believe that because governments sign documents and say that "it's all over" that the hearts and minds of the populace agree. From what I knew of them -- the greatest generation never forgave and never forgot. And I don't blame them.

In case you are unaware of this fact -- history is compiled by interviewing people who lived during the period in which events occured. I challenge you to prove to me that the recollections of your sources are any more valid than the recollections of the many WW2 veterans I have known. They were also there and there is no power on earth that can play games and create revisionist history to make Adolph Hitler's Nazi regime the "good guys".