but this guaranteed the perpetual hostility

但是美国这种行为引起了德国
of an ever increasing number of rightwing parties,

不断壮大的右翼势力的长久的敌意
of which the most vicious

其中最凶猛同时也最成功的
and the most successful would be the Nazis,

要数纳粹
opposed the very existence of the Weimar Republic and became,

它们反对德国魏玛共和国的存在
as I'll explain in a minute, a revisionist state.

后来发展成为修正主义政府过会再解释
A revisionist state is one that wanted to revise the Treaty of Versailles,

修正主义政府就是想修改凡尔赛条约的政府
because people of their dominant ethnic group

因为这个政府中的优势民族
had ended up on the wrong side of the frontier.

被划分到了错误的一侧
If you had fought a war that was based upon national claims in 1914,

如果你参加了1914年全国性号召的战争
in which aggressive nationalism

激进的民族主义
was one of the root causes of the war,

是这样战争的根本诱因之一