I read the book as a teenager but seeing it in live-action was brutal. You forget that soldiers used gas and fucking flamethrowers on people, and they did it so their ruling class can get even wealthier.
Remembering that the causes of that war were about European empires trying to carve up Germany because capital had reached its zenith under the pre-war status quo unless it acquired new markets and territories to expand into was just eye-opening.
:eu-cool: :germany-cool: :france-cool:
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in WW1 everyone was basically as bad as each other WW1 Germany was genuinely not any worse than any other European power.
It's just a major red flag to be super into German military history by association. Similar to how it's dodgy to be super into indian symbology specifically swastikas we all know what you're doing there