Der Untergang des Abendlands

With its self-infatuated extremism and two world wars, Germany killed the global prestige and supremacy of Europe and European civilization.

Who doubts that without those wars the German, Austrian, and Russian Empires would have peacefully moderated to become constitutional monarchies?

That the European colonial empires would have peacefully evolved toward commonwealth or independence arrangements?

All with vastly less loss of blood and treasure.

PS

One can overdo German war guilt.

But also one can underdo it.

Sleepwalking to Suicide.