re: #44 HappyWarrior

I can’t imagine what he must have went through. I remember hearing a historian say that in many a way the 20th century really began the day WWI started.

In many ways, that’s true. There was a Czech lecturer making the circuit here a few years ago - whose name eludes me - who was talking about the “Long War” theory, basically, that both WWI and WWII were the same war, with a 21-year ceasefire in between. So in that reckoning, the Great European War lasted from 1914 to 1945. As he pointed out, it technically didn’t really end until Germany regained her sovereignty in 1991 and was no longer an occupied nation.

An interesting lecture, with a different view of history; I found it quite fascinating.