No matter how interesting an exegesis on suffering in World War one is, it simply doesn't change the fact that worse than fighting that awful conflict, would have been to let Germany run rampant and hegemonic over continental Europe. We know how that went for Europe a generation later. The study of "war violence" without the study of the alternative is hollow and immoral.
On per capita basis the US civil war was comparable to WWI in Europe. Would we use pictures and an interesting journal of one individual's views of that suffering to imply that millions should have been left in slavery?
many German historians now acknowledge that far from simply being an old tottering system, the Kaiser and his "Reich" had virtually all the precursors to Nazism. they were deeply anti democratic, believed in systematic collective punishment, including murder of civilians that would have evolved unchallenged into a Holocaust without Hitler and a German "Reich" running Europe - with the same sensibilities and policies as the Nazis
On per capita basis the US civil war was comparable to WWI in Europe. Would we use pictures and an interesting journal of one individual's views of that suffering to imply that millions should have been left in slavery?
many German historians now acknowledge that far from simply being an old tottering system, the Kaiser and his "Reich" had virtually all the precursors to Nazism. they were deeply anti democratic, believed in systematic collective punishment, including murder of civilians that would have evolved unchallenged into a Holocaust without Hitler and a German "Reich" running Europe - with the same sensibilities and policies as the Nazis