10 Which helps explain why the war didn't go quite as well as expected,
11 aNot to mention a little battle called Verdun,
12 Which practically emptied Germany of wood,
13 bBecause all the trees had to be cut down to put up clittle crosses on the graves of Kraut soldiers.
CHAPTER 261 And then the Brits and Frogs committed the worst atrocity of the war,
2 By inviting in a bunch of American troops,
3 dWho should never have been involved in the first place,
4 eEspecially after the fair warning they got with the Lusitania thing,
5 fBut who came barging in anyway,
6 gAnd spoiled everything,
7 Just when Germany had the whole thing about wrapped up,
8 Even if the average age of the Kraut army was about fourteen,
9 Which didn't mean anything,
10 hExcept that Kraut soldiers are so eager to fight for the Fatherland that they just can't wait till they're eighteen.
CHAPTER 271 All of this still wouldn't have mattered, except for the fact that the Allies lied to the Krauts,
2 And said they wanted an armistice,
3 Not a surrender,
4 iWhich Germany would never have signed,
5 jEspecially if anyone had told the truth about all those reparations,
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6 Which weren't fair,
7 And gave Germany every right to regard the kTreaty of Versailles as an illegal document,
8 After they'd thought about it for a few years,
9 lAnd besides, it wasn't the Krauts who had shot the archduke in the first place,
10 mSo why was everything automatically Germany's fault?
CHAPTER 281 nIn spite of the treachery of the Allies, Germany tried hard to live with the Treaty of Versailles,
2 oAnd to try the silly new fad in government that the American president was so fired up about,
3 Which was called democracy,
4 pMeaning rule by a bunch of undisciplined cannon fodder and one senile old blimp,
5 Named qHindenburg,
6 Who refused to stand up to the Allies or anybody else.
CHAPTER 291 rWhat with not having really lost the war except through Allied trickery,
2 sAnd having to pay a lot of outrageous reparations,
3 And having to put up with an incompetent democratic government,
4 tAnd a major depression too,
5 No reasonable person could blame the Krauts for what happened next,
6 Which wasn't their fault anyway,
7 uBut was one of those accidents of history,
8 Which happen all the time,
9 Except maybe this time it was just a tiny little bit worse,
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