Actually, Europe died in the mud of the Great War ... Verdun, Somme, Paaschendale, etc.
“Actually, Europe died in the mud of the Great War ... Verdun, Somme, Paaschendale, etc.”
True. Europe lost their desire to defend Western Civilization. They bled themselves white on those battlefields. Afterwards there was no desire to put themselves in a position where they may have to visit those horrors again, which gave Hitler an open avenue to institute the very thing Europe was trying to avoid.
Most people view WWII as the most important war, but in reality it was WWI. All else flowed from it even to this day.
Not really, with the end of World War one, many countries in Central europe were freed.