Having fun with German daily FAZ's modern reporting was the goal of a recent post.
Nevertheless, we do appreciate the paper's work and would like to direct you once more to their WWI historic articles section.
We also checked out some of the French papers, made so wonderfully easy to access by the internet [the thing every self respecting intellectual right now professes to hate].
And we stopped in our tracks at an article about 22 August 1914.
According to the historical record, France suffered 100 000 combat dead on that one day.
France alone.
In 24 hours.
Compare that to the roughly 60 000 the U.S. suffered in the whole Vietnam War.
And less than a generation after the 'great war' ended, the Nazis - with more than a little help from the German establishment - started the next one.
As a historian on British TV series Time Team put it: the same thing throughout history, you have some megalomaniacs, and everybody falls in behind them.
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