to most people's satisfaction that

现在很多学术成果显示
the opinions of contemporaries were more right than the revisionists,

当代人的观点比修正主义者的观点更准确
that the general blame for the First World War can be laid

即第一次世界大战可归罪于德国
at Germany's door and that guilty feelings were unjustified,

而所谓的罪恶感也并非师出有名
but it's too late.

但已为时晚矣
The revisionist historians did their work so well,

修正历史学家所做的工作卓越出众
and it fit so nicely

与20世纪20年代至30年代的
into the climate of opinion of the 1920s and 30s

舆论环境相得益彰
that these people captured the minds of a generation

他们能捕捉到一代人的心念所想
and helped to move them in a direction that they wanted to go.

并使这些所思所想慢慢倾向于他们的目的
So, what historians write and what teachers teach can really matter,

因此史学家所写和老师所教的确举足轻重
mostly in the negative.

但大多是消极作用