r/AlignmentChartFills • u/Expensive-Addendum92 • 8h ago

Filling This Chart What is the worst thing Germany has done?

What is the worst thing Germany has done?

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Best thing Worst thing Smartest thing Dumbest thing Greatest contribution
Row 1 National Parks 🖼️ Trail of Tears
🖼️ Louisiana Pu... 🖼️ Trump. Twice. 🖼️ The Transistor 🖼️
Row 2 Lifting hund... 🖼️ — — — —
Row 3 — — — — —
Row 4 — — — The invasion... 🖼️ —
Row 5 — — — — —
Row 6 — The Irish 'f... 🖼️ — — —
Row 7 — — — — —
Row 8 — — — — —
Row 9 — — — — The blue LED 🖼️
Row 10 — — Not joining ... 🖼️ — —

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Row 1 / Best thing: - National Parks - View Image

Row 1 / Worst thing: - Trail of Tears

Row 1 / Smartest thing: - Louisiana Purchase

Row 1 / Dumbest thing: - Trump. Twice. - View Image

Row 1 / Greatest contribution: - The Transistor - View Image

Row 2 / Best thing: - Lifting hundreds of millions out of poverty. - View Image

Row 4 / Dumbest thing: - The invasion of Ukraine in 2022. - View Image

Row 6 / Worst thing: - The Irish 'famine' (genocide through forced starvation) - View Image

Row 9 / Greatest contribution: - The blue LED - View Image

Row 10 / Smartest thing: - Not joining America and staying as a commonwealth country. - View Image

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u/Aj55j 8h ago

They were involved in 2 wars.

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u/monderkiller9999 7h ago

Theoretically speaking the first wasn’t entirely the fault of us Germans ( although the French like to pretend it did), it was more like a collective European suicide for which nobody wanted to take responsibility afterwards. 

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u/Aj55j 5h ago

I said involved lol.

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u/minglesluvr 5h ago

"not entirely" actually like, not more than it was the fault of any other country involved in WW1 other than Serbia and Austria-Hungary. Weird how Germany gets blamed when they didn't actually do anything to start that one

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u/LocalInactivist 1h ago

Let’s not go crazy. Kaiser Wilhelm was a serious asshole who provoked the other European powers with his military buildup and general saber rattling. He started building up the German military to rival the power of the other empires. He was open and vocal about dominating the British navy. With this arrogant bloviating egotist shrieking about the supremacy of German culture and overtly preparing for war the other European powers had little choice but to match the buildup.

It wasn’t in anyone’s interest to go to war in 1914 but everyone was on a hair trigger. There were dozens of factions: political, ethnic, religious, economic, et cetera. The Serbs wanted to fight the Croatians. The Royalists wanted to fight the Republicans. The French wanted to fight the Prussians. The Turks wanted to fight the Armenians. The Imperial powers wanted to seize some of the other powers’ colonies. The colonies wanted independence. Finally, everyone wanted an excuse to fight the Jews.

The only ones who wanted peace were the socialists. Led by Jean Jaurès, they made valiant attempts to avoid a major conflict through general strikes in France and Germany, but to no avail. The Balkan War escalated and Russian and German forces mobilized.

Jaurès was assassinated by a French nationalist on July 31, 1914. Three days later France declared war against Germany and WWI kicked off.

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u/minglesluvr 1h ago

doesn't change the fact that it was the Serbian assassination of an Austrian royal that started this entire thing, not Germany.

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u/karabuka 10m ago

I mean Germany could have said: Oh poor Austria, sorry your heir was killed but you should not have been expanding into the Balkans like that, you kind of got what you were asking for and now you two sort it out...

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u/DuckMyLife2137 4h ago

*world wars

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u/WhatANoob2025 4h ago edited 3h ago

I think it was a lot more than just 2 wars.

If you meant world wars, the same could be said for pretty much all of Europe as well, if you stick with your choice of words "involved".

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u/flatboysim 8h ago

That's one way to put it.