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Brian E. Crim, "'We Ourselves are the War:' Understanding the Relationship between the First World War and the Holocaust" (2009)

“We Ourselves Are the War:” Understanding the Relationship between the First World War and the Holocaust Brian E. Crim, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of History, Lynchburg College Europeans from every walk of life rejoiced at the prospect of war in 1914. The “Old Order” may have blundered into a diplomatic nightmare from which there was no escape, but Europe’s bellicose populations were more interested in the end result—a great national cleansing. After nearly a century of limited engagements within the confines of the balance of power system, colonial adventures in distant lands, and the steady triumph of bourgeois materialism at home, »

Paul Fussell, on Trench warfare

Paul Fussell, University of Pennsylvania on Trenches The first thing was it smelled bad. It smelled bad because there were open latrines everywhere. There were bodies rotting everywhere. Nothing could be done about them. You could throw a shovel full of quick time on them to take some of the smell away, but the odor of the trenches was appalling. It's hard to imagine people living for years in the middle of that smell. That's what they had to endure. Then, of course, no bunks, no places to lie down when you weren't on duty; so you lay in the »

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