Reflections of a stormy petrel

That's funny, I am a historian and I do not think there is any consensus that the "reparations" did anything to inflame German war mania. National vanity, the excessive power of the officers corps, the whole complex of neuroses and political positions one might call "Prussia", the universal certainty that Germany had never been defeated at all, meant that no peace treaty whatsoever could be accepted by Germany. That loathsome individual Woodrow Wilson did his part in treating the Allies as though they were America's enemies and the Germans as though they were allies, thus strengthening their sense of entitlement. War was inevitable from the moment Wilson declared that his country was not an ally, but a co-belligerant.