Shouldn't Germany take full responsibility for the war and pay the total cost of World War 2?

Answer 1

Yes.

Germany invaded it's neighbour Poland, as an excuse to start a war of aggression and expansion, that eventually saw Germany ruling most of the continent of Europe.

The German Nazis wanted to control THE WORLD, and they all most made it. It took the longest and most bloody war in history to STOP them.

Yes, the Nazis were completely and utterly responsible for starting WW2, and the western Allies were responsible for STOPPING it.

AnswerNo.

The allies knew Germany was rearming and they did nothing to stop it, instead they appeased Hitler.

Secondly, in some ways world war two was simply a continuation of world war one (which was actually started by the Austro-Hungarian Empire), as the French Marshal Foch said in 1919 "This is not a peace. It is an armistice for 20 years"

And to point out some errors in what the person above me wrote, Hitlers dream was not world conquest, it was a Third Reich stretching from the Rhine river to the Urals and it was the Soviet Union that played the greatest part in defeating the Nazis and not the western allies.

ANSWER

No

Germany was not responsible for WW2 because it was Britain and France who declared war on Germany - not the other way around. Germany invaded Poland because they did not want to give up the prior German city of Danzig....this was at this stage only a war over a border dispute .By Britain declaring war,this turned it into a World War.

Answer 2

No. That would be ridiculous, as Germany was not the only player in WWII at all.

Answer 3

No. Many countries fought on both sides, so the responsibility is not purely down to Germany. They did pay a lot after the war, but other countries had to do a lot of work too.