Message from @RDE
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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
Fuck off dad
Tfw Germany should have made the robot flammenpanzer
Use it to cook judensteins from the comfort of your own home
And your son Hans asks if he can try to fry some heebs