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Comment Re:mustard is a chemical agent? (Score 1) 249

The more I look at it, the harder it is to see the Germans as particularly evil. They didn't start the war, that's for sure. And Britain and France didn't have a moral advantage over them in any way.

That is not correct at all. The war was primarily fought and resolved in France and Belgium. Aside from the actual trigger for the war (and the domino effect that followed), Germany did invade Belgium and France. Germany does not have the moral high ground in this one at all, Britain, France and Belgium do. Aside from, Germany also was the first major power to declare war. In addition the initial situation that enabled the war was created primarily by Germany's attempt to become a great power to rival Britian, France and Russia.

The war degenerated into an appalling mincing machine and the British and French do not have any moral high ground on the conduct of the war. They do have the moral high ground on how the war was started.

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