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Britain Should Not Have Fought in the First World War

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The Mist of Patriotism in Germany

"I don't think 700,000 dead British men were worth any amount of respect," he says. "It's interesting how this debate has turned so quickly into a kind of referendum on the supposed beastliness of the Germans." He adds that there was no question of lining burrows up against walls and shooting them in cold blood as the Germans did in 1914.

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