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Comment by JumpCrisscross

> what lessons? The Allies didn't occupy Germany at all

Of course we did [1]. The ACC was far more intrusive than the American occupation of Japan; we formally stripped Germany of its sovereignty.

EDIT: the lesson from Versailles was that we had to rebuild Germany. To rebuild required occupation. Occupying Germany after WWII was one of the lessons learned from Versailles.

> Germany would have resumed the war

Germany was in no position to keep fighting.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allied-occupied_Germany

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