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Charlie discusses the blame placed on Germany at the end of the war, and I agree with his claim that consequences that the country had to face weren't entirely justified. I also agree with Charlie when he says, "Germany was, in some ways, the country primarily responsible for the escalation from one country's internal conflict to a continent-wide war". However, Germany, arguably, suffered the most in terms of casualties and discontent at home, even before the Treaty of Versailles. I couldn't help but notice that in the simulation of the Treaty of Versailles in class on Friday, that everyone, including me, was so quick to place all of the responsibility of the war and all the debts caused by said war on Germany. We all shouted out the numbers of our casualties and tried to make each other see how much we suffered, but no one recognized that Germany would beat us in those complaints and numbers. I understand that they needed to be defeated, and I'm not trying to say that I am pro-German in this case because I'm not in the least, but I do think it is unfair that they were made to assume all of the blame and debt. I also think it was irresponsible for nations to beat Germany down so much, as Germany was in severe danger of being influenced by Russian socialism in its weakened state after the war. Placing more troubles on Germany would only accelerate the rate at which the German people called for a revolution seeing the success such a revolution achieved in Russia. This is exactly what happened. This is exactly what happened. Instead, though, of just communism, Germany became subject to a terrible fascist regime. If the other nations had assumed their own responsibility and agreed to pay their own debts over time instead of taking the easy way out and making Germany pay for everything, Hitler may have never been able to gain the power he did and World War II could have maybe been avoided.