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"I fear a weak Germany almost as much as I do a strong, belligerent one." -- (possibly) David Lloyd George?

OK, so I just watched this ... movie? documentary? http://www.amazon.com/Paris-1919-Narrator-R-H-Thomson/dp/B002JUFPFY about the year following World War I, where France, Britain and the US were trying to decide how Germany should be punished for the war. In one of the scenes there, David Lloyd George appears extraordinarily prescient when he tells Woodrow Wilson that he fears "a weak Germany almost as much as [...] a strong, belligerent one". You'll see a commenter on Amazon also wondered the same thing: http://www.amazon.com/review/R3CVBCHZF9UU28

I guess I'm curious if that scene has any basis in reality?

Thanks!
(The best I could find is some vague references to Lloyd George worrying that a weak Germany would fall to _Bolshevism_, not necessarily that he thought it would fall to "any demigod who comes along and promises to restore German pride.")

My take on it is that a "total dismantling" of the German nation like what happened during the Interwar would facilitate the rise of a strong and powerful leader. He correctly foreshadowed Hitler coming to power because of so much discontent during Germany's Weimar Republic.

Your "additional details" were almost there. Rather than fall to Bolshevism, Germany would fall to the National Socialist German Workers Party, a different brand of leftist/totalitarian regime. Hitler despised Bolshevism.

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