The “War To End All Wars” ended ...
at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918.
The generals ordering men into the path of machine gun fire. Seeing 10’s of thousand s killed and ordering the same again and again. Dig a trench and wait till the million shells land on you. Sit there and be gassed. What a stupid way to wage war and over what because some cousins on a throne are upset with each other?
“The “War To End All Wars” ended ...
at the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918“
And when the hour struck a German soldier apparently raked off a full belt from his machine gun, stood up, bowed towards the enemy lines, and walked from the battlefield.
WWI Germany was a much different Germany than many people understand. As many have noted here, WWII Germany (read Hitler) forever changed that country and soured it to this very day.
Many wonder why Germans do not stand up to the muslim horde in their country, Hitler and the stain on Germany is why imho.
I dare say it actually ended at the end of December 1991, with the official end of the Soviet Union.
I have long thought that the era from 1914 to 1991 will one day be regarded by historians as “The Long War”.
The armistice was agreed on at 6 a.m. on November 11th but did not go into effect until 11 a.m. Some generals insisted on fighting in the interval. I was told 5,000 men died in the interval...more than the US lost in Iraq from 2003 to 2011.