[Netz]

Germans do not want to celebrate the fact that they lost two world wars in a row. Let ‘em go celebrate cultural diversity and being flooded with Muslims over a beer.

Yah! Yah! Ve von de var you know!

[T-Bird45]

In my view, WW1 was fought to a stalemate since the German homeland was not decisively occupied/defeated. The Kaiser had to accept terms of surrender where those were the larger defeat rather than was the battlefield defeat. This was where the seeds for WW2 were sown. At least the Allies learned from that and went for the full victory in WW2.

[nathanbedford]

I do not understand the import of your reply.

I live in a very small village in Bavaria. Every one of the surrounding villages has a church and near the church there is a "Denkmal", a monument, with a list of names on it attributed to the years from 1914 to 1918 and some to the years 1939 to 1945. The lists in both time periods are shockingly long when one compares their length to the diminutive size of the village.

Let me assure you that there is no celebration of either war. But it would be very small minded and quite ignorant to celebrate the victories over Germany as anything other than a great tragedy of history which could have and should have been avoided.