Prelude to Lebensraum? Germany’s Occupation of Eastern Europe in WWI
Was the German conquest of Eastern Europe in WWI a prelude to Hitler's racial Armageddon? Not when you look at the facts.
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The Demons Unleashed: WWI as the Seedbed of the 20th Century
Before WWI, Europe had been largely at peace for forty years, and faith in liberalism and progress was fairly universal. The slaughter in the trenches and subsequent political upheavals changed all that - for the worse.