Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "The Scars Of The Great War In Western Europe | The Long Shadow (1/3) | Timeline" video.

Your great grandfather *should* have felt remorse. He was on the wrong side. The Germans did (almost) nothing wrong in WW1 and the German Emperor was not in any way an evil man or a criminal. A spoiled man who wasn't terribly competent and who was very out of touch with the common man, sure. Blame France and Russia, blame the UK, blame the US. Blame Belgium for preventing Germany for letting Germany beat back the aggressive French fast enough to get the war over with quickly. Blame Serbia for starting the whole mess. But don't blame Germany. They were actually just defending themselves against foreign aggression.
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Too young to be old you clearly didn’t follow along. France was NOT innocent. In fact, France and Russia started the whole thing. A mass mobilization was as good as a declaration of war back then. Belgium was asked nicely first but there is a limit to how long Germany could delay their critical defensive war in order to play nice with a de facto ally of France.
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Sonderbarr and the Herero wars were fought in order to prevent one African group from slaughtering another African group. The Boer wars, on the other hand, were just all round nasty and were in no way fought for self defense or to prevent a genocide.
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@Sonderbarr did the Herero not use German weapons to butcher other native groups? And did the Germans not stop it? And did they not have to fight a war against the Herero to do so?
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