I will always respect our Wehrmacht during the WWII, one thing is the Wehrmacht and another thing is the National Socialist party in the government.
The National Socialist party, brainwashed the German population because they actually pulled out Germany from the misery, which was orchestrated by the French and the British governments in hand with many Jewish-German banks between 1921-1932 (Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic) (Germany's war reparations WWI)
'Keynes said the Treaty was a "Carthaginian peace", a misguided attempt to destroy Germany on behalf of French revanchism, rather than to follow the fairer principles for a lasting peace set out in President Woodrow Wilson's Fourteen Points, which Germany had accepted at the armistice. Keynes argued the sums being asked of Germany in reparations were many times more than it was possible for Germany to pay, and that these would produce drastic instability.
The war and the treaty were followed by the Hyper-inflation of the early 1920s that wreaked havoc on Germany's social structure and political stability. During that inflation, the value of the nation's currency, the Papiermark, collapsed from 8.9 per US$1 in 1918 to 4.2 trillion per US$1 by November 1923. Prosperity reigned 1923–29, supported by large bank loans from New York.'
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Then, it came the American Great Depression in 1929-1939 which once more again, affected the German market, a lot of Germans died under starvation, others suffered under hunger and when the National Socialists took over, Germany recovered under the German war industry and common industry, which was orchestrated by the National Socialist party (Nazis).
'The Great Depression struck Germany hard, starting in late 1929. There were no new American loans. Unemployment soared, especially in larger cities, fueling extremism and violence on the far right and far left, as the centre of the political spectrum weakened. Germany had paid about one-eighth of its war reparations when they were suspended in 1932 by the Lausanne Conference of 1932. The failure of major banks in Germany and Austria in 1931 worsened the worldwide banking crisis.
So, as known, Germany was among the countries most severely affected by the great depression because its recovery and rationalization of major industries was financed by unsustainable foreign lending. And as mentioned, war reparation obligations reduced investment propensity and, perhaps most importantly, the government implemented a rigid austerity policy that resulted in deflation.'
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The Wehrmacht had the oath to protect the German people at any cost, as long the German people feel good, as long the German people is happy, the Wehrmacht had the duty to protect the German welfare.
There were small fractions which participated by force in the Holocaust and other fractions in other genocides, which were ordered by the German SS Officers under the National Socialist leadership which made the German people happy, no matter if through political manipulation or not, politics are not the concern of the Wehrmacht as long the German people was happy and welcomes the current political leadership, the Wehrmacht mainly fought for the German people and not for the government and their retrograde views, such as the Holocaust which most German people wasn't aware of what was truly happening.
Brainwashed or not, as long the majority of the German people accepted the National Socialist government, the Wehrmacht had to follow orders and fight for the German welfare.
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