Reinhardt's early years in the Navy involved assassinations of politicians by right-wing extremists, but despite being in close proximity with a right-wing terrorist who assassinated a government minister, Reinhardt showed no interest in the case.
This episode discusses how Germany's involvement in World War One led to a rise in racism and how the country was primarily guilty of wanting to do what France and Germany had been doing for two or three centuries.
Paul von Hindenburg served as a corporal in the German army during World War II and ended the war without any significant war experience or allegations of war crimes.
French hospitals during WWII bartered their wine rations for potatoes, which were the only food dense enough in calories to keep their patients from starving. The average French working person's diet during the war was 1200 calories a day in the areas under German control.
After the end of World War I, a coalition consisting of the far left and center left emerged, which consisted of both social democrats and even centrists who were tired of the war that didn't seem to be working out. However, the coalition was only united in their desire to end the war and get rid of the king, and the social democrats had to bear the responsibility of negotiating the surrender and establishing a republic after the king left.
The Kaiser's war games were regularly ending with the taking prisoner of enemy armies consisting of five or 600,000 men and he was shocked to learn that the war games were rigged, lacking the basic principles of war that included accounting for friction and obstacles.