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That whole Aryan fairy-tale was just another aspect of the massive Nazi propaganda campaign. Which fell on fertile ground in a devastated country. Germany was in ruins due to the stupid post-WW I revenge campaign. The Allies, *influenced by doddering French generals intent on payback for previous defeats* extracted ultra-punitive reparations from a starving populace.
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Baloney. The Germans got off too easy. It took the destruction of
Germany in WWII to kill off German militarism. Same with the Japs.
They were sick, and their cure was total defeat.
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No, the first paragraph is closer to the truth than the second. It was the poverty that came about due to Germany having to pay war reparations after WWI that created ideal conditions for another war. People who are doing well and getting ahead in life don't want to go to war. It's when they're working hard and getting nowhere and can see that they're going nowhere and their kids won't go nowhere either that they vote for someone like Hitler that captures their imagination in returning their country to it's former glory and prosperity. War's biggest enemy is prosperity. No one who feels they're doing fairly well for themselves wants to go to war. It's only when they feel there's nothing to lose that they look at war as a feasible alternative to a miserable life.
The Marshall Plan, controversial though it was at the time, was probably the best decision the US and it's allies made after WWII. It was not the destruction of Germany that put an end to German militarism, but the prosperity in Germany as a result of the Marshall Plan that followed WWII. And, for 70 years since, Germany has been both prosperous and peaceful.