Why do Germans like to start wars?

Question

They allways loose anyway.

Answer 1

The warlike spirit and military capacities of the region later incorporated as Germany are dreaded from the first records of their contacts with Greece and Rome in ancient times.

The peoples living north of the Rhine River constantly vexed Rome once Rome entered its lands, causing Rome to withdraw its aim to conquer northern Europe and fortify the Rhine River as a border. Subsequently Goths and Teutons were actively sought as recruits for the Legions. Their armies's victories at Teutoberg Forest and later at Adrianopolis were among the worst military defeats suffered by Rome until the subsequent defeat and sack of Rome, in which the Goths played a large role

England and the English language were also formed by, among others, the intrusions of the Saxons from northern Europe (Prussia) unto the lands of the Britons; Old High German is one of the major strands of English.

Historians have often speculated on the effects of geography on instilling and strengthening the martial qualities of the Germanic tribes. They have lived in the heart of the Europe between strong, aggressive neighbors. Germany was caught between the Romans, Slavs, Huns and other Turkic peoples displaced from central Asia, and the Gauls.

Germany, as we know it, was a very rough neighborhood, and its occupants have always has had expansionist impulses. In the last two hundred years France and Germany have had repeated wars, and mostly German victories, contesting control over Alsace-Lorraine.

Answer 2

There were many wars in Europe during the last 1000 years. And most wars were started and/or fought by either the French or the English.
If you only look at the last century you'll find that WW I and WW II were started by the German government. But no war since. And Germany wasn't involved in most wars since. Unlike the US.

Why do people like to start wars? They don't! But sometimes they think that there is no other way or that they know how to win. It's just stupidity.

And for the gene thing mentioned above, Hitler was an Austrian. He had no children. So there is no such thing as a German-Hitler-Warstartergene.

Answer 3

I hate to rain on your parade, but the last one they started was over 60 years ago.

I don't know if you realize it, but nowadays it is the Germans (together with the rest of the world) who are wondering the same thing about the U.S. (whose outcomes have been somewhat similar to what you pointed out, in the decades since WWII, BTW).

Note to acmeraven: Apart from the rest of your "logic", the U.S. was NOT attacked by terrorists from Iraq. Iraq had NOTHING to do with 9/11. When are people going to wake up and realize this simple and easily verifiable fact? The "war" in Iraq is a gratuitous one waged for totally different reasons, totally disconnected from 9/11, which was used as an excuse, fabricating a non-existent connection in people's minds. Even GWB has since admitted that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11. See here (and watch the video):
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/08/21/bush-says-iraq-had-%E2%80%98nothing%E2%80%99-to-do-with-911/

Answer 4

they dont the only major war caused by Germany was WW2 and that ended in 1945 the nations in europe that have caused or been in nearly every european war are England and France the German people arent warlike there goverment just relized the importance of a strong military and so they made sure theres was extreamly well orginized and powerful

Answer 5

this is like asserting blacks are a million/3 of a white guy. Germans are not 'continuously commencing wars' thinking all of the different wars began via distinctive international locations. learn your history in the previous you insult different individuals's ethnicity.

Answer 6

Some say war is like a cockroach bomb you set off every now and then, while others say it results from a failed society or one that does not understand how to implement legislation to stop inequity. This is why it is so important to stand up against every falsehood in the Law, say wrong drink driving law leads to increased home drug taking.

Answer 7

Bear in mind that Germany is a very young country. Its roots are one of the reasons it is the way it is.

Prussia was one of the big forerunners of Germany. Prussia was a VERY militarist nation. They valued the power of their army very much. Those ideas kept going into the new Germany.
Also, the philosophers in that region loved the ideas of rationalism and coldness. They didn't value emotion nearly as much as reason. So, they didn't really care about anything other than their goals.

Then, when there were other great empires out there, they got envious and wanted to expand their own, that led to WWI.
The poor treatment that they received after WWI contributed, with their anger at having lost the war, to making them angry with their neighbors, and desiring another war. That led to WWII.

To correct what at least one person said above: I have met some very kind and pleasant Germans. I worked at a Burger King for 4 years, and one of the best customers we had was a German man working for a local company. He was one of the most pleasant and kind customers I had.

Answer 8

I'm not sure what you are referring to other than perhaps the World Wars (there were only two and the last one ended in 1945)...

What other wars have the Germans started since then ?

Answer 9

By and large leaders carry out the will of the people; look at the US in the here and now. Clinton sent troops to Bosnia and they are still there. When we were attacked by terrorists from Afghanistan and Iraq we retaliated and our troops are still there. We should follow the examples of the Germans and Russians and attack and occupy a country; then have them pay us to provide an occupying force; we seem to get it backwards, we occupy some flea infested sand pile in the middle of nowhere and then the poor US taxpayer pays for everything. It used to be the whole idea of a war was to capture a country and get some loot; leave it to our talking heads to screw it up; we capture a country and give them the loot. Our congress is full of talking head idiots; look around you if you don't believe me.

Answer 10

I every time spend my half an hour to read this blog's posts daily along with a mug of coffee.