Germany was a main reason for why WW1 was so deadly but they did not start the war. The treaty of Versailles put Germany in a massive debt and their national pride shattered. The Nazis gave the German people a scapegoat for their problems, Hitler also blamed the allied powers for enforcing such strict punishments for a war they didn’t start. Broken and shattered, in debt and struggling to live, Germany and the German people turned to the Nazis who promised them to make Germany great once more.
The fairest criticism of the Proclamation is that it did not actually do what people today give it credit for...it did not free all enslaved people. So, critics saw that and fairly criticized it.
