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
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