“There are twenty million Germans too many.”

-French PM Georges Clemenceau, Dec.1918, on keeping the starvation blockade against Germany despite the armistice

I just can’t imagine why the Germans would be spoiling for revenge a generation later. 🤷‍♂️

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Was that the German population at the time?

I think that was about1/4 to 1/3 of the German population at that time