Disaster Centennial: The Disturbing Relevance of World War I

[unhappycamper]

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/world-war-i-continues-to-have-relevance-100-years-later-a-941523.html



It has now been 100 years since the outbreak of World War I, but the European catastrophe remains relevant today. As the Continent looks back this year, old wounds could once again be rubbed raw.

Disaster Centennial: The Disturbing Relevance of World War I
By Klaus Wiegrefe
January 08, 2014 – 03:36 PM

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More than 60 million soldiers from five continents participated in that orgy of violence. Almost one in six men died, and millions returned home with injuries or missing body parts -- noses, jaws, arms. Countries like France, Belgium and the United Kingdom are planning international memorial events, wreath-laying ceremonies, concerts and exhibits, as are faraway nations like New Zealand and Australia, which formed their identities during the war.

Poles, citizens of the Baltic countries, Czechs and Slovaks will also commemorate the years between 1914 and 1918, because they emerged as sovereign nations from the murderous conflict between the Entente and the Central Powers.

In the coming months, World War I will become a mega issue in the public culture of commemoration. The international book market will present about 150 titles in Germany alone, and twice as many in France -- probably a world record for a historic subject. The story of a generation that has long passed on will be retold. New questions will be asked and new debates will unfold. British Prime Minister David Cameron is even making funds available to enable all children attending Britain's government-run schools to visit the battlefields of the Western Front.

A response of this nature would be unthinkable in pacifist Germany.

[warrant46]

1. The Bush Family made millions from this Cluster Fuck

Its been posted before

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x633661

[independentpiney]

2. wrong war

This is about WWI , the clusterfuck that spawned the Nazis.

[warrant46]

3. Right War

Samuel Prescott Bush (1863-1948: George W. Bush’s great grandfather). Founder of the Buckeye Steel Castings Company in 1894, Remington Arms Company, and Chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms and Ammunition Section of the War Industries Board for World War I.

In 1918, just after the US entered World War I, Bush became chief of the Ordnance, Small Arms and Ammunition Section of the War Industries Board. In this capacity, he sold weapons made by manufacturers such as his own Remington Arms Company to 75% of the WWI combatants on both sides. Congressional committee hearings in 1934 by U.S. Senator Gerald Nye attacked Bush and other weapons salesmen as war profiteers and “Merchants of Death.” Salesmen from these companies had helped to manipulate the nations into World War I and then made astronomical profits from the sales of the weapons, at the taxpayer’s expense of course. In 1914, the German army under the Kaiser, armed mainly by Samuel Bush, was the largest and best armed in the world.

In 1914, the German army under the Kaiser, armed mainly by Samuel Bush, was the largest and best armed in the world.

[independentpiney]

4. Your link is bullshit

"In 1914, the German army under the Kaiser, armed mainly by Samuel Bush, was the largest and best armed in the world."

The primary infantry weapon of all the central powers was the Mauser Gewehr 98 and variants, which were manufactured at various plants in Germany. Krupp arms of Germany manufactured most if not all of the German artillery pieces. These are documented facts. No one should try to rewrite history to suit their political agenda.

[warrant46]

5. Thanks for the profanity

Adios

[independentpiney]

6. You're welcome

Have a great day.