[BluH2o]

At the conclusion of WWI on November 11, 1918 it was said that the Great War would end all wars ... at least in Europe. England, France, Germany were bled white ... a whole generation of mostly young men were decimated in the carnage of that war. Yet just a generation later (21 years) the same antagonists were at it again ... nothing was learned from WWI. Particularly the Germans.

[dfwgator]

Europe never fully recovered from WWI, WWII just made the wound even deeper.

[The_Reader_David]

Oh, the Germans had learned something from WWI, but not the lessons one might have hoped: they learned the importance of tanks in modern warfare, and the basis of blitzkrieg — fusing the tactical innovation that had been turning the tide in their favor before the entry of the U.S. and the first generation of British tanks into the war with the use of tanks. (Though it was really a British captain, B.H. Liddell-Hart, who learned those lessons and set them down fair and square in books, which his own country’s General Staff didn’t read while the German General Staff (and Patton) devoured them.)