re: #282 wheat-dogghazi

I’ve been reading Barbara Tuchman’s history of WWI, on the recommendation of another lizard. I had no idea how rapacious the Germans were as they marched through Belgium toward Paris. If any Belgium sniped at them, the Germans would kill most of a town’s population and burn it to the ground.

I have a better understanding why the Allies imposed such punishing postwar restrictions on the Germans. It was retribution for barbarism.

Part of that was the Germans refighting the last war. They had considerable trouble with French Franc-tireurs in the Franco-Prussian War. Compounded by Belgium Army resistance at the beginning of the war helping to stymie the Schiffelin Plan.