germany after grt prosperity was destroyed durin wars,now again they r reachin thz hts?
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First things first-they need to make India a permanent UNSC member.We have the world's third largest military,a booming economy,a stable governemnt and our soldiers have laid down their lives in almost every U.N peacekeeping operation from Sierra Leone to Sri Lanka.It's about time India (one of the original members of the UN-we joined in 1945-before we were even independent) got the recognition it deserves.
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yes. almost every nation involved did, except for those defeated. The website at historychannel.com has some really good info on post war europe and asia
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one source ws from the former soviet union...after that fell apart many former soviet officials started peddling off their stuff like a yard sale on the black market.  I would guess a lot comes to them through Syria who gets them from russia and china.  You are right Jennifer.  There are international arms dealers who don't care who they sell to...some have lived right here in the U.S.  In wwII there were people who were American citizens who actually sold equipment to Hitler.  I'm sure it continues and that is a disgrace.
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At the end of WWI, the US very much wanted to help rebuild and bring Germany back into the fold-in fact rebuilding Europe as a more integrated continent was forfront the the US devising of the League of Nations.  Unfortunately, the other allies very much wanted to punish Germany, to teach it a lesson, since they are still stuck in the "great powers" mindset.  This devastated the country, and allowed the growth of a "victim" mentality-used against Jews as internal enemies and the other European countries as external enemies.  At the end of WWII, the US was in a position this time to dictate that Germany would be rebuilt and reintegrated.  Though we don't like to see anything particularly good about Stalin's Russia (and there werent that many good things) they also kept punishment to a minimum, and integrated East Germany into their system..the cause of the poor conditions in East Germany was much more a factor of the system than it was of any punishment.  The German people themselves have maintained a very clear and active analysis of their collective guilt, which has been far more effective in resolving issues than external punishment.
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Why is Germany always the bad guy? Simple. Because they lost the war. The victors always write the history. Had the American Revolution been a failure, Washington, Jefferson, etc. would have been hanged and labeled as "traitors", and, possibly terrorists. Germany isn't the "Bad Guy". International Financiers are!
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Germany had been one of the leaders in industrialisation before WW1, but at the Treaty of Versaille the opposing countries put a stop to this ... in order to reduce the threat of Germany rebuilding it's power.\n\nAt Versailles the German government had been forced to sign a peace treaty that gave away 13% of her territory. This meant the loss of 6 million people, a large percentage of her raw materials (65% of iron ore reserves, 45% of her coal, 72% of her zinc) and 10% of her factories.\n\nThis naturally led to a depression in Germany and the people felt a little down trodden.  This was Hitler's springboard to inspire and unite the people.\n\nCheck out the link below for lots of great info, pictures and accounts of WW2 (it's a school level website on history ... it's brillant!)
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Things haven't gone well there since Xerxes I.\n\nAt least they are trying to modernize there. They sure have a long way to come in the standard of living category.\n\nIt is nice to see them standing up for themselves. I hope it all works out with as little death as possible.
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The Country that paid the us back after ww11 is Germany
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Think they are closing Kitzingen too. Supposibly when the army ever leaves germany , they will turn out the light in the Storck barracks
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It is semantics.  The Germans were beaten.  They gave up.  Surrender by any other name is still surrender.\n\nYou are trying to create an 88 year coverup.  Try reading some history books.
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How many of you out there remember this same BS when the Soviets were building the Berlin wall?  Ask the Russians and Germans how much they benefited from building their wall to keep out undesireables.  Oh wait, the Soviet Union is no more and the Germanys are back together and the wall came tumbling down.\n\nGo read some history about the great wall of China.  Why it was built and why it didn't work either.
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Firstly Germany shores up its borders and moves into a massive reconstruction programme, this fuels its economy for the next 10 years of so called peace.  \n\nThe Brits are doing well as they do not have the massive burden of war debts that were built up and there Empire is still going strong 10 years later as it was not dismantled at the end of the war. \n\nThe war in the pacific decimated the American population, although they one the war, the loss of life on the American side was increased 3 fold as it was held conventionally and the Japanese decided not to surrender as there was not immediate threat to the civilian population.  This loss of life, coupled with the lack of a cold war with the Soviet Union makes the USA go back to its position of isolation and it never takes a major play in world politics.   \n\nThe Soviet Union stumbles along, but as it does not have the land's it gained at the end of the second world war the money to fuel its economy was never present so after 10 years it is already crumbling at the seams. \n\n1955. \n\nEngland\n\nBritain is worried about the growing political power of the Third Reich, it controls large swathes of Europe and it has developed a bomb that is reputed to be so powerful that it can destroy cities.  Britain steals the technology from the Third Reich and develops a bomb of its own as a deterrent.   \n\nGermany.\n\nWith the development of a nuclear bomb Germany looks to expansion once again, it has its eye on the Soviet Union, and is looking for an excuse to invade.   The rest of the world looks on as both Soviet Russia and Fascist Germany - now the Third Reich which encompasses Germany, Italy, France, ect are despised and the thought of them destroying each other is approved by most over nations. \n\nUSA. \n\nThe USA is now a major economic power its integrations of Japan as its 51st state has worked, and it has also integrated Mexico and Korea as its 52nd and 53rd states respectively.  It is worried again about the situation in Europe, but due to its policy it does not have a large spending on military and is more of an economic force than a militaristic one. \n\nSoviet Union.\n\nThis country was on the brink of collapse, but as always the threat to its identity by the fascist forces of the Third Reich have had an up swelling of pride and the army is growing at an exponential rate.  It is worried about the nuclear bomb but can not get its hands on the information of how to create one. \n\n1960.  \n\nGermany attacks the Soviet Union in the summer, the war was going well, but winter is setting in and once again the sever Soviet winter is acting as the saviour for the country, Germany is threaten to use nuclear and biological warfare against the Soviet Union, and the threat of this forces the Soviet Union to act first, and in an unprecedented act, in the absence of nuclear technology, carpet bombs large parts of the Third Reich with chemical and biological agents.  Germany responds and Moscow, Stalingrad, Leningrad are destroyed by nuclear weapons.  The Soviet Union collapse, however the damage inflicted upon the Third Reich is also insurmountable and this regime also collapses.  Both the United Kingdom and the USA step in and take control America's money is funding the British military and an agreement is set up that the remaining inhabitable parts of these two once great powers of the Third Reich and the Soviet Union will be split up between the two remaining powers.  \n\nThe United Kingdom is now in control of Europe and Africa with interests in South America and the Far East but most of the new world is controlled bythe Americans.  Due to the long standing friendship between the two powers, a lasting peace is at long last known to the world.
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http://images.google.com.tr/images?q=Germany+2006&hl=tr
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WW1 ended with the Treaty of Versailles.  The terms of the Treaty imposed harsh conditions on Germany.  Germany could not have a standing army, land was taken from Germany and the German nation was forced to pay huge sums in reparations.  The enconomy was experience hyperinflation.  This is where the money loses its value, almost to the point of being worthless.  People would ask to be paid at noon so they could run out and spend it---because by the end of the day their pay would only be worth half as much.  There are pictures of men pushing wheelbarrows FULL of German money down the street.\n\nHitler was a WW1 hero.  He saw the problems that Germany was facing under the unjust terms of the Versailles treaty.  He saw the wreck the economy was in.  There were no jobs for German citizens in the private sector, so Hitler created huge government projects that employed millions of Germans.  As the people went back to work, their apathy dissipated.  Hitler gained even more power, and in time was able to repudiate the Versailles Treaty and raise an army.\n\nthis is just the tip of the iceberg.  Read and study more about pre-WWII Germany.
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Would be better to go to another place.  Germany has forgotten how to educate people.
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B/C German's are selfish
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It will be interesting to see how Germany would handle 'jurisdiction' in this regard. If they follow through, they will also have to expose many inner workings of their own government in the trial (the German Intelligence community contributed greatly to the pre-invasion data collection). Additionally, the fragile Grand Coalition being held by the Merkel led CDU/ CSU would struggle with a drop in support from the US, and we would probably see a return of the SPD to government plurality, which would be disastrous for a now recovering German economy.