It broke Europe

The method of warfare was also much more tragic

But it always gets overlooked

It was nightmarish

Trenches and gas

It gets covered for like a week and then it goes straight to WW2 and the shoahcost

And not zyklon b either

Mustard and chlorine gas

Like actual chlorine “burn your lungs out painfully” gas

Some of the most agonizing possible ways to die

And mustard "melts your skin off" gas

The flamethrower was invented, imagine being a British soldier and seeing a man coming over the trenches SHOOTING FIRE

And you’ve never seen anything like it

And then on Christmas going out into no man's land and singing hymns with the men you'll be trying to kill tomorrow

That story always was so tragic to me

You're both Christian and killing each other over a few feet of soil

You want to know why I think part of the reason why it’s never covered as much as WW2?

Because you couldn’t blame someone for it

NO
MORE
BROTHER
WARS

WW1 is infinitely more interesting than 2

Everyone was at fault in WW1, there was no “good guys” and “bas guys”

It was just a bunch of fools throwing their men into the grinder

You can’t blame the Germans for it essentially

The germans kinda had to get involved

Yeah I read a great novel and the writer is basically my favorite author, I wondered why there aren't more books
Turns out he dies at 25 in a fucking trench

I mean when you look at it, there were no great intellectuals on the continent between 1912 and 1950

They all were fucking murdered

The rule of thumb when it comes to conflicts being covered by the American education system , if you can’t blame the British or the Germans for it, it’s not covered

And that makes me so <:pinkwojak:422439817528344577>

I love the cultures of both of them

The British are blamed for everything pre 20th century and the Germans are blamed for everything during the 20th century

I love the British aesthetic and propriety and the German love of efficiency

The Germans are geniuses when it comes to engineering

^

And theres nobody more polite and chivalrous (historically) than the Brits

I mean, a German made the repeater gear by taking a shitty French design and improving on it

Art, science, music, literature, England and Germany were the foremost in all of history

They made a ton of great guns as well, the Gewher line, the Mauser line, so many great guns. And don’t even get me started on the tanks

I'm more of talking about the culture

Hi more of talking about the culture, I'm Dad!

The Germans are the undisputed masters of mechanized warfare