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how do you get to 144? Isn't it 60 on each hand?

Counting 12-15 per hand was how I grew up learning, I thought this was the way everyone did it?

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So you admit that reparations were a key factor in hyperinflation and Germany's economic decline? Do you really think that massive reductions in territory and huge reparations had no effetc on why Germany experienced much worse hyperinfation prior to the depression than the other european powers?

Treaty of Versailles might have been a reason for discontent but it was not the reason for Nazis coming to power, nor was Great Depression. Nazis were at first financed by German industrialists who payed for electoral campaigns and later also from abroad by very rich people and companies in the West including Henry Ford.

edit: what I mean that financing was decisive factor

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Hyperinflation was caused by the grossly inept war time economic management so the fault of Germany. Germany was hit so hard because the German Government -deliberately- made the depression worse to get out of paying reparations

And Keynes was wrong. German hyperinflation occurred due to gross mismanagement during the war done by the German government. Germany didn't actually pay hardly anything during the 1920s in terms of reparations but nonetheless complained of its inability to pay while receiving billions in cheap loans which saw its economy show record growth after 1924

The Western Front of the Great War is one entirely of Germany's making. Germany attacked Belgium and France first and it was moreover Germany which pushed Austria-Hungary to present impossible demands to Serbia while telling them Russia would do nothing. The person and indeed the organization which killed Franz Ferdinand - Young Bosnia, wasn't Serbian in origin and its connections to the Serbian Black Hand was dubious and its not like the Austrians ever performed an actual investigation into it. Nonetheless, the Serbian Government tried and executed the entire organization in 1917 because the Serbian Government was just as annoyed by the Black Hand as the Austrians were.

It wasn't harsh enough. Germany should have been occupied and de-militarized.

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Its a purposefully misleading title to make you think Ancient Iraqis worshiped Thor.

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Yes, it’s a myth as false as the Stabbed In The Back theory. Germany defaulted payment of reparations anyway and received vastly more money under the Dawes plan. Versailles itself was not the issue. Problems stemmed from the fact that Germany lost the war but was not itself invaded and occupied as happened during WW2. The German government pumped its people with propaganda about how well the war was going right to the end, even though after Operation Michael they knew they would lose. As a result, Versailles and The Guilt Clause made no sense and the Nazis were eventually able to exploit this.

Penicillin and vaccine that saved billions of people, the eradication of smallpox (which killed 300 million people on the 20th century alone), the end of high infant mortality rates, mass literacy, the end of massive war in the West, lasting peace in Western Europe for the first time in millennia, in 1900 around 70% of humanity lived in extreme poverty now it’s closer to 20%, …

Yes things may look bad. But we live in the best era of humanity.

CrashCourse?

What are some 'good things' that happened in the 20th century that are as impactful as all the bad?

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That's how I first learnt about it.

Use your thumb to point/count your other joints in the fingers (including the base) and you can count to 12 on one hand. If you do the same with your other hand you're able to count up to 144 with just two hands.

:O

Compare it to the treaty which ended the second Franco Prussian war. It was a normal peace treaty for the era

> titles for a book

In the spirit of unmitigated pedantry, I feel I should tell you it’s a blog.

My guess would be that it’s because thunderstorms are more common / violent during spring in a lot of areas.

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