Everybody went into the meat grinder, including the sons of nobility and Scottish farmers. And the "intellectuals" - ever heard of Brooke, Grenfell, Owen, Rosenberg, Sorley, Thomas?
And from what I've read of Jünger, Remarque, and other German writers, that doesn't appear to be the case on the other side, either.
(Off topic - I had the privilege to know the late Ernst Jünger personally.)
I do not deny that many very capable men vanished during the world wars, but we were not talking about individual fate, we were talking about genetic pools, biological selection and last but not least about Darwinism. Therefore you have to focus on those who survived and who rebuilded Europe. If we stick to the moronic argumentation of that so called "history professor" from our friend from Texas, they all would be biological junk.
This is complete nonsense since it is rather the other way around. Just two arguments to give proof to my statement:
-For millitarists: After 1918 the SS, that was for sure a real "elite"-troop in millitary regard would not have been possible, if all "alpha-males" would have been wiped out between 1914 - 1918. (Just to put things straight: I hate the SS more than anything else but they were for sure "good" soldiers.)
-For pacifists: After 1945 the breathtaking rebuilding would not have been possible with a genetic degenerated populace.
Love it or hate it: Darwinism (although it is awfully cruesome) works and the European gene pool was cleaned through terrible selection in a genetically "positive" way.