Well it clearly should have killed even more cuz most survivors immediately became freikorps and then nazis.
"Ooh the youth of yurop was extinguished in the mud in a senseless infight"
Sadly not all of it, and I don't want to even think what would have looked like had they pointed their armies only outward, 100 vietnams but 50 years early
I was angry about the ones who survived the war and became freikorps, and then remembered the phrase "WWI brought the horrors of colonialist wars back home".
Anyways, I phrased it that way for comical intent.
I thought that was WW2? Also don’t forget the french and the brits immediately started killing africans, asians and arabs again lol
Yes exactly, I don't see how WWI wasn't a typical colonialist carnage but at home. It had less genocides I guess.
I mean, I guess the difference is german/british/french armies hadn't met against armies with machineguns, gas and planes before.
looks at the balkans and middle east just before and just after
Oh, in WWI too? Fuck
I knew about the Armenian genocide, but not sure if it's directly linked to WWI, besides being done by the Ottomans
ottoman massacres of non-turks were fueled by ethnonationalists who only got more humiliated and empowered as the ottoman position collapsed due to war(s). so it was based on revanchist nationalism boiling for a few decades but escalated due to ww1
the post-war division of ottoman territories had the british & french & multiple minorities scrambling to carve pieces off what'd become modern turkish borders---when the french & greeks lost this is when the most severe phase of ethnic cleansing began & armenians were practically erased from greater armenia & cilicia, and greeks were kicked out of western turkey.
Bulgarians killed a lot of serbs, also like muslims slavs all across the balkans