I think it's interesting how this debate has turned so quickly into a kind of referendum on the supposed beastliness of the germans. There was anti semitism in germany before the first world war, as there was in almost every society in europe, including the united states and russia. But if you were looking for a society anti semitism was deep and was visceral and was a horribly unpleasant force. I don't think a 700 thousand dead british men were worth any amount of respect. Rather than, i think, of a moral debate. The glorious dead does chime very harshly on us but one always has to consider the feelings that those whove lost loved ones